RE: format-dateTime localised picture parameters long medium shor t

Thanks for the comment. We will register this as a last call comment on XSLT
2.0, and you will get a response from the working group in due course.

If you have further last call comments, it would be helpful if you include
[XSLT2.0] (if that's the document you are commenting on) in the subject
line, and ideally a reference number so we can easily identify the comment
in the archives.

Michael Kay


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Zschech [mailto:richard.zschech@cqrdata.com] 
> Sent: 13 November 2003 14:55
> To: public-qt-comments@w3.org
> Subject: format-dateTime localised picture parameters long 
> medium short
> 
> 
> 
> Would it be possible to define special picture parameters for 
> the date and time formatting methods such as "long" "medium" 
> "short". The XSL processor can use this in combination with 
> the language and country parameters to produce a localized 
> format for a particular locale.
> 
> An example of this is the java class 
> java.util.text.DateFormat which can produce DateFormats based 
> on the styles DateFormat.LONG, DateFormat.MEDIUM, 
> DateFormat.SHORT and a java.util.Locale which can be 
> constructed from the language and country.
> 
> Another example is C#'s String.Format with D,d,T,t,F,f for 
> long and short date, time, date and time.
> 
> Another example is in vb with DateFormat Enumeration's 
> vbLongDate, vbShortDate, vbLongTime and vbShortTime.
> 
> This will allow authors of style sheets to format dates and 
> times based on a users preferred formats and not have to hard 
> code formats in style sheets.
> 
> If the implementation does not have the ability to determine 
> a localized format then it could fall back to a predefined one.
> 
> A similar thing could be done with number formats.
> 
>