Convert Java Date into XML Date Format (and vice versa)

Question

Is there a nice and easy way to convert a Java Date into XML date string format and vice versa?

Cheers,

Andez

Answer 1

You can parse and format dates to and from any format using SimpleDateFormat

Answer 2

Without knowing exactly what format you need, the generic response is: you're going to want DateFormat or SimpleDateFormat. There is a nice tutorial on both here.

Answer 3

Using Joda Time you would do the following:

DateTimeFormatter fmt = ISODateTimeFormat.dateTime(); // ISO8601 (XML) Date/time
DateTime dt = fmt.parseDateTime("2000-01-01T12:00:00+100"); // +1hr time zone
System.out.println(fmt.print(dt)); // Prints in ISO8601 format

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