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xmldate

xmldate these methods return a converted date. The date can be specified either as a Date object or an ISO6801 string.

xmldate(Date date)

xmldate(Date date) returns an ISO8601 string converted from the specified Date object.

Parameters

date
A Date object to convert to an ISO6801 string.

Returns

Returns an ISO6801 string.

Example

xmldate(String date)

xmldate(String date) returns a Date object converted from the specified ISO6801 string.

Parameters

date
An ISO6801 format string.

Returns

Returns a date object converted from the specified ISO6801 format string.

Example


<p>Date:${date?date}</p>

<#assign isoDate = xmldate(date)>

<p>isoDate: ${isoDate}</p>

<#assign dateObject = xmldate(isoDate)>

<p>dateObject: ${dateObject?date}</p>


        

The preceding code snippet would produce output similar to the following:

Date:Jan 5, 2012

isoDate: 2012-01-05T16:52:43.319Z

dateObject: Jan 5, 2012