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# Copyright (c) 1998 Enno Derksen
# All rights reserved.
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the same terms as Perl itself.
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package XML::XQL::Date;
use vars qw(@ISA);
@ISA = qw( XML::XQL::PrimitiveType );
use strict;
use Carp;
BEGIN
{
# Date::Manip relies on setting of $TZ.
unless (defined $ENV{TZ})
{
$ENV{TZ} = "EST5EDT";
warn "XML::XQL::Date - setting timezone \$ENV{TZ} to EST5EDT (east coast USA.) Set your TZ environment variable to avoid this message.";
}
}
use Date::Manip;
BEGIN {
# add date() implementation to XQL engine.
XML::XQL::defineFunction ("date", \&XML::XQL::Date::date, 1, 1, 1);
};
use overload
'fallback' => 1, # use default operators, if not specified
'<=>' => \&compare, # also takes care of <, <=, ==, != etc.
'cmp' => \&compare, # also takes care of le, lt, eq, ne, etc.
'""' => \&yyyymmddhhmmss; # conversion to string uses yyyymmddhhmmss
sub new
{
my $class = shift;
my (%args);
if (@_ < 2)
{
my $str = @_ ? $_[0] : "";
%args = (String => $str);
}
else
{
%args = @_;
}
my $self = bless \%args, $class;
if (@_ < 2)
{
my $date = $self->createInternal (@_ ? $_[0] : "now");
$date = "" unless isValidDate ($date);
$self->{Internal} = $date;
}
$self;
}
sub createInternal
{
my ($self, $str) = @_;
Date::Manip::ParseDate ($str);
# From Date::Manip:
#
# 2 digit years fall into the 100 year period given by [ CURR-N,
# CURR+(99-N) ] where N is 0-99. Default behavior is 89, but other useful
# numbers might be 0 (forced to be this year or later) and 99 (forced to be
# this year or earlier). It can also be set to "c" (current century) or
# "cNN" (i.e. c18 forces the year to bet 1800-1899). Also accepts the
# form cNNNN to give the 100 year period NNNN to NNNN+99.
#$Date::Manip::YYtoYYYY=89;
# Use this to force the current date to be set to this:
#$Date::Manip::ForceDate="";
}
sub isValidDate # static method
{
my ($date) = @_;
return 0 unless defined $date;
my $year = substr ($date, 0, 4) || 0;
$year > 1500;
#?? arbitrary limit - years < 100 cause problems in Date::Manip
}
sub ymdhms
{
my $self = shift;
if (@_)
{
my ($y, $mon, $d, $h, $m, $s) = @;
#?? implement
}
else
{
#?? test: x skips a character. Format: "YYYYMMDDhh:mm::ss"
return () unless length $self->{Internal};
# print "ymhds " . $self->{Internal} . "\n";
unpack ("A4A2A2A2xA2xA2", $self->{Internal});
}
}
sub yyyymmddhhmmss
{
my ($self) = @_;
my ($y, $mon, $d, $h, $m, $s) = $self->ymdhms;
$y ? "$y-$mon-${d}T$h:$m:$s" : "";
# using Date::Manip::UnixDate is a bit too slow for my liking
#?? could add support for other formats
}
sub xql_toString
{
#?? use $_[0]->{String} or
$_[0]->yyyymmddhhmmss;
}
sub xql_compare
{
my ($self, $other) = @_;
my $type = ref ($self);
if (ref ($other) ne $type)
{
my $str = $other->xql_toString;
# Allow users to plug in their own Date class
$other = eval "new $type (\$str)";
#?? check result?
}
#print "date::compare self=" . $self->{Internal} . " other=" . $other->{Internal}. "\n";
$self->{Internal} cmp $other->{Internal};
}
sub xql_setSourceNode
{
$_[0]->{SourceNode} = $_[1];
}
sub xql_sourceNode
{
$_[0]->{SourceNode};
}
sub xql_setValue
{
my ($self, $val) = @_;
$self->{Internal} = $self->createInternal ($val);
$self->{String} = $val;
}
# The XQL date() function
sub date # static method
{
my ($context, $listref, $text) = @_;
$text = XML::XQL::toList ($text->solve ($context, $listref));
my @result = ();
for my $val (@$text)
{
# Using xql_new allows users to plug-in their own Date class
my $date = XML::XQL::xql_new ("date", $val->xql_toString);
# print "date $val " . XML::XQL::d($val) . " " . $date->xql_toString . "\n";
push @result, $date;
}
\@result;
}
1; # module return code
__END__
=head1 NAME
XML::XQL::Date - Adds an XQL::Node type for representing and comparing dates and times
=head1 SYNOPSIS
use XML::XQL;
use XML::XQL::Date;
my $query = new XML::XQL::Query (Expr => "doc//timestamp[. < date('12/31/1999')]");
my @results = $query->solve ($doc);
=head1 DESCRIPTION
This package uses the L<Date::Manip> package to add an XQL node type
(called XML::XQL::Date) that can be used to represent dates and times.
The Date::Manip package can parse almost any date or time format imaginable.
(I tested it with Date::Manip 5.33 and I know for sure that it doesn't work
with 5.20 or lower.)
It also adds the XQL B<date> function which creates an XML::XQL::Date
object from a string. See L<XML::XQL::Tutorial> for a description of the date()
function.
You can plug in your own Date type, if you don't want to use Date::Manip
for some reason. See L<XML::XQL> and the XML::XQL::Date source file for
more details.