Date datatype in my schema

[David Slinn]

I have created a simple XML document, generated a schema from it (which
Visual Studio makes everything a string element). I then went through and
changed all fields that are dates to the Date data type. Now, when I use
the datagrid to edit the data in the XML file and then switch back to the
raw XML text date, the dates are formatted like this
"1973-10-27T00:00:00.0000000-06:00" and not as I expected, which are
supposed to be a simple date, such as "1973-10-27" as per the W3C spec.

Also, when I validate the document, it fails on all date elements with this
error:

C:\Documents and Settings\DSlinn\Desktop\GroupImportXML\groupimport .xml(17):
The 'http://gms.ca/groupimport.xsd:EnrollmentDate' element has an invalid
value according to its data type. An error occurred at , (17, 54).

When I fix the date to not include the time information, it passes the
validation. Is this a bug, and if not, how can I prevent Visual Studio from
inserting the time information in my date elements?

[Raj]

David,
xs:dateTime will give an output of 1999-05-31T13:20:00.000-05:00 while
xs:date will give an output of 1999-05-31.Based on your input XML format, use
the appropriate datatype.
Try generating an XML instance from the schema and see what it expects!
Hope it helps
Thanks
Raj

"David Slinn" wrote:

I have created a simple XML document, generated a schema from it (which
Visual Studio makes everything a string element). I then went through and
changed all fields that are dates to the Date data type. Now, when I use
the datagrid to edit the data in the XML file and then switch back to the
raw XML text date, the dates are formatted like this
"1973-10-27T00:00:00.0000000-06:00" and not as I expected, which are
supposed to be a simple date, such as "1973-10-27" as per the W3C spec.

Also, when I validate the document, it fails on all date elements with this
error:

C:\Documents and Settings\DSlinn\Desktop\GroupImportXML\groupimport .xml(17):
The 'http://gms.ca/groupimport.xsd:EnrollmentDate' element has an invalid
value according to its data type. An error occurred at , (17, 54).

When I fix the date to not include the time information, it passes the
validation. Is this a bug, and if not, how can I prevent Visual Studio from
inserting the time information in my date elements?

[David Slinn]

Raj,

I set the XML schema to the Date datatype - my problem is with the datagrid
view of the XML data (based on the schema document) that visual studio uses.
When I enter data using the data grid, then switch back to the text view, it
is ignoring that my data type is Date and it creates dateTime values as I
indicated. I feel like this is a bug or something, because the document
will now no longer validate against the very schema visual studio used to
display the grid view. Maybe I'm the only one using grid view to enter data
into an XML file using an XML schema with a date data type??

- D

"Raj" <Ra*@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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David,
xs:dateTime will give an output of 1999-05-31T13:20:00.000-05:00 while
xs:date will give an output of 1999-05-31.Based on your input XML format, use the appropriate datatype.
Try generating an XML instance from the schema and see what it expects!
Hope it helps
Thanks
Raj

"David Slinn" wrote:

I have created a simple XML document, generated a schema from it (which
Visual Studio makes everything a string element). I then went through and changed all fields that are dates to the Date data type. Now, when I use the datagrid to edit the data in the XML file and then switch back to the raw XML text date, the dates are formatted like this
"1973-10-27T00:00:00.0000000-06:00" and not as I expected, which are
supposed to be a simple date, such as "1973-10-27" as per the W3C spec.

Also, when I validate the document, it fails on all date elements with this error:

C:\Documents and Settings\DSlinn\Desktop\GroupImportXML\groupimport .xml(17): The 'http://gms.ca/groupimport.xsd:EnrollmentDate' element has an invalid value according to its data type. An error occurred at , (17, 54).

When I fix the date to not include the time information, it passes the
validation. Is this a bug, and if not, how can I prevent Visual Studio from inserting the time information in my date elements?