Date format in xml file

Question

Hi,
I am relatively new to XML and JSP.I am on a project where i have to transfer data to and from an Oracle 8i database to XML using JSP.everything worked fine except for the follwing:
the date format in xml is always 'yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM:SS'.
the datatype is date in oracle and string in jsp.when i try to upload the data in XML to oracle it gives me date format not recognised error.I ve tried using trunc and to_char in the query which fetches records into a recordset in JSP but to no avail.i keep getting the same format.
Can someone please help with with having the date format as 'dd-mon-yyyy'.
Thanks a heap for the help
regards,
Vinayak

Answer 1

Hi,
I ve tried out the solutions suggested by you and tried using java.sql.Timestamp
as follow:
<%@ page import="java.sql.*" %>
<%@ page import="java.io.*" %>
<%@ page import="oracle.sql.*" %>
String dateString = rset.getString("installation_dt");
java.sql.Timestamp date = new java.sql.Timestamp.valueOf(dateString);
But tomcat throws up the following error
:104:
cannot resolve symbol
symbol : class valueOf
location: class java.sql.Timestamp
java.sql.Timestamp date = new java.sql.Timestamp.valueOf(dateString);
Hope you can help me.
Thanks a heap
Regards,
Vinayak