Question

I’m currently getting user input from a very large form as an XML document. I’d like to validate this XML document against a schema before any database related operations. The problem is that users input dates according to their own preferences (US standard, ISO standard, etc.) and the database expects dates to be ISO standard. Is there anyway I can validate this XML document and change the dates to ISO format before adding it to the database? I’m using Perl for the back-end, any libraries that can help me do the same?

Cheers,

Answer 1

For date conversion

HTTP::Date

For dealing with xmls in general

Perl-XML

PM for processing XLST (you guessed it)

XML::XLST