Re: [NTG-context] XML to ConTeXt: converting date attribute from ISO date

11 Mar 2020

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Am 11.03.2020 um 15:19 schrieb Hans Hagen :
On 3/11/2020 3:12 PM, Axel Kielhorn wrote:
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Am 11.03.2020 um 15:01 schrieb Hans Hagen :
On 3/11/2020 2:14 PM, Axel Kielhorn wrote:
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Had to change it to:
\startluacode
   function xml.finalizers.tex.MyDate(e,what,how)
       local ee = e[1].at[what]
       local t = (string.split(ee,"-"))
       context.date(
           { y = t[1], m = t[2], d = t[3] },
           { how }
       )
   end
\stopluacode
You mean the () around the split? weird. Anyway, there's also a time splitter (dedicated to Alan who needed one):
No, sorry that’s an artifact from testing.
I had to assign:
local ee = e[1].at[what]
and
string.split(ee,"-")
in two steps while the original had
local t = string.split(e[1].at[what],"-")
still strange because it's one value, if it were multiple you could do
This is strange.
Now it works.

Earlier I had context.date complaining that it got a table and not a string.
That’s why I took the t = assignment apart into pieces.

Now I copied the code from the original reply and it works.

Sorry for the noise.

Axel