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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm having a hard time decyphering the specs for the new XQuery 3.0 fn:format-dateTime when it comes to numeric values.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In particular, if you pass a language argument does that take precidence over or affect at all numeric values.
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<p class="MsoNormal">E.g. what is the expected result of this : <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">fn:format-dateTime(xs:dateTime("1996-08-30T23:35:09.12-09:00"),"[Y]","hi","AD","US"),<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Mangal","serif"">१९९६ or 1996<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And this<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">fn:format-dateTime(xs:dateTime("1996-08-30T23:35:09.12-09:00"),"[Y01]","ar","AD","AE")
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">٩٦ or 97<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In the text for
</span><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-xpath-functions-30-20111213/#func-format-dateTime">http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-xpath-functions-30-20111213/#func-format-dateTime</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I don't find any description on how language affects numeric values, or on if the digit values have higher or lesser precidence then the values.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But this example: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Jewish (with Western numbering)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">format-date($d, "[D] [Mn] [Y]", "he", "AM", ())</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">26 טבת 5763<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Jewish (with traditional numbering)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">format-date($d, "[Dאt] [Mn] [Yאt]", "he", "AM", ())</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">כ״ו טבת תשס״ג<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Implies that language with no format digits should be western,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and that format digits override language codes.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Any suggestions on how to clarify this in partiular a refence to the spec where the rules are defined. I'm sure I missed something.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I do read this:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The language is used to select the appropriate language-dependent forms of:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">names (for example, of months)<br>
numbers expressed as words or as ordinals (</span><code><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">twenty, 20th, twentieth</span></code><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">)<br>
hour convention (0-23 vs 1-24, 0-11 vs 1-12)<br>
first day of week, first week of year<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">To me this implies that languages has no effect at all on numeric formats. This is consistant with the example, but thats only by exclusion not inclusion of wording.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for any suggestions. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">David A. Lee<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:dlee@calldei.com"><span style="color:blue">dlee@calldei.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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