Search Forum Home   XML  XSLT, XPath and XQuery  String to Datet...  String to Datetime conversion in XML   jeffmarsh 1 posts Joined 7/1/2006 String to Datetime conversion in XML Posted: 01 Jul 06 11:38 PM (India) Hi pals, I have one doubt regarding conversion of string to datetime datatype in xml. Actually here is my problem.I have two system's(Applications) both communicate via XML formats. ok. Now my requirement is that,i am getting the datetime in 'yyyymmddhhmmss' format to the first system which is in xml. Now i must able to pass this converted date to datetime in second system which is again receives in the format of xml. My problem is that , on the target side the date is received as string but i must able to convert that string into datetime. Can we do that. .. If so i am waiting for a genours reply. Thanks in Advance Jeff olegt 85 posts www.xmllab.net Joined 2/25/2005 Re: String to Datetime conversion in XML Posted: 11 Jul 06 1:42 AM (Israel) Well, that depends on what kind of application you have. You mean the date comes in an XML document and you want to parse it into DataTime? Here is how you can do it in C#: DateTime dt = DateTime.ParseExact("20060611113115", "yyyyMMddhhmmss", null); If that's not what you wnat - please elaborate. Oleg Tkachenko, Microsoft MVP for XML, MCPD http://www.XmlLab.Net | http://blog.tkachenko.com  Page 1 of 1   XML  XSLT, XPath and XQuery  String to Datet... Flat View Tree View Oldest To Newest Newest To Oldest