MS Access XML export

Question

Hi,
This is not really a Spry issue, but it is something that
many of us may encounter.
I use MS Access to generate an XML file from a table. In that
table I have several date fields, not matter how I format them,
(e.g. mm/dd/yyyy) when I export to XML it generates the following
format:
2007-01-25T00:00:00
I just want a normal date format, what I can do to fix this ?
Regards,
Leon

Answer 1

Hi Leon,
You can do this today with an onPostLoad observer. In the
following example, I had an XML that looked like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<items>
<item>
<name>Item 1</name>
<moddate>2007-01-25T00:00:00</moddate>
</item>
<item>
<name>Item 2</name>
<moddate>2007-01-25T00:00:00</moddate>
</item>
<item>
<name>Item 3</name>
<moddate>2007-01-25T00:00:00</moddate>
</item>
<item>
<name>Item 4</name>
<moddate>2007-01-25T00:00:00</moddate>
</item>
</items>
I then created a date filtering function that I added as an
observer:
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var ds1 = new Spry.Data.XMLDataSet("items.xml",
"items/item");
ds1.addObserver(dateFilter);
function dateFilter(notificationType, notifier, data)
if (notificationType != "onPostLoad")
return;
// Get the unfiltered set of rows from the data set.
var rows = notifier.getData(true);
var numRows = rows.length;
// Now loop over every row and translate the "date" column
// into a normal date format.
for (var i = 0; i < numRows; i++)
rows[ i ][ "moddate" ] = rows[ i ][ "moddate"
].replace(/^([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2}).*/, "$2/$3/$1");
//-->
</script>
--== Kin ==--