XFA Specification
Chapter 15, Template Specification
Template Reference
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The date element
A content element that describes a single unit of data content representing a date.
<date
Properties:
id="xml-id"
name="xml-id"
use="cdata"
usehref="cdata"
>
...pcdata...
</date>
The date element is used within the following other elements:
desc exObject extras items proto value variables
XFA dates conform to a subset of
ISO-8601,
as specified in
Canonical Format Reference.
This element is
intended to hold a date only to the resolution of a single day and any date information beyond that
resolution will be truncated. For instance, a date element enclosing the value
20010326T0630
, meaning
6:30am on March 26th 2001, will truncate the time and hold the value of
20010326
, resulting in a value of
March 26th 2001.
Content
This element may enclose date data which is a subset of [ISO-8601] as specified in
Canonical Format
Reference.
When no content is present, the content shall be interpreted as representing a null value, irrespective of
the value of the associtated
nullType
property in the data description.
The id property
A unique identifier that may be used to identify this element as a target.
The name property
An identifier that may be used to identify this element in script expressions.
The use property
Invokes another object in the same document as a prototype for this object. The content of this property is
either a SOM expression (which cannot start with '#') or a '#' character followed by an XML ID.
Starting with XFA 2.4 the object used as a prototype no longer needs to be the child of
proto
. Any object
of the appropriate class can be used as a prototype.
If both
use
and
usehref
are non-empty
usehref
takes precedence.
The usehref property
Invokes an external object as a prototype for this object. The content of this property is an URL, followed
by '#', followed by either an XML ID or by som(SOM_expr) where
SOM_expr
represents a SOM expression.
The XML ID or SOM expression is resolved in the context of the external document.