[news.eclipse.tools.emf] Re: Serialization: additional date formats

[Ed Merks <merks@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jan,

Yes, the formats for the type in XMLTypeFactory are exactly the ones 
that conform to the XML Schema specification, so if you want something 
different, you'll need to define your own data type along with the 
corresponding conversion methods in the factory.


Jan J Kratky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an EMF model that's been created from an RSA UML model. I'm 
> using XMLResource/XMLResourceFactory to handle the 
> serialization/deserialization.
>
> I'd like to be able to introduce some custom data formats within my 
> XML. For example, let's say that in our XML format we have an 
> attribute that should be expressed as being of type xsd:time. I would 
> like to be able to do that and still have the ECore expression of it 
> be as a Date (with default values for the non-day-of-time portions). 
> That is, I would like to be able to successfully process something 
> like "08:00:00.000-0500" or, better yet, "08:00:00" rather than 
> requiring something like "2007-01-01T08:00:00.000-0500".
>
> Is there any 'quick and dirty' way that I can accomplish this sort of 
> thing, or (in this example) does the fact that XMLTypeFactoryImpl 
> hardwires the set of acceptable date formats mean that I have to 
> provide a fully custom variation on XMLResource/XMLResource factory on 
> down to get the kind of processing I'd like?
>
> Thanks!