In the xml schema data type –> date allows date as yyyy-mm-dd format by default.
How can we modify it so that it accepts yyyy/mm/dd format style instead ?
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In the xml schema data type –> date allows date as yyyy-mm-dd format by default.
How can we modify it so that it accepts yyyy/mm/dd format style instead ?
You can’t get the standard xs:date type to accept formats other than the standard format. What you can do is to define a string data type with a pattern constraint; but it won’t have date semantics, for example it will accept 1999/02/29.
Saxon’s XSD processor has an experimental extension, saxon:preprocess, which allows you to change the lexical representation of a data type. Not many people use it, of course, because they want their schemas to be interoperable; but it does exactly what you want so I thought I would mention it.
Another solution which is often overlooked, and which is perhaps more practical, is for your processing pipeline to do a transformation step before it does the validation step. This approach can be used to overcome many of the limitations of XML Schema, and it isn’t widely enough known.