PEF Element - Timestamp

PEF Element: timestamp

PEF Element found in http://www.posc.org/schemas/peftypes_q.xsd
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Description:

The PEF timestamp element consists of a PEF date element and a PEF time element. The date element is mandatory.

Proposed Usage:

This datatype was developed to support the Epicentre timestamp data type. It is intended as a direct mapping from Epicentre to an XML file. It is expected that applications outside of PEF mappings will use the XML Schema timeInstant datatype, which is an encoding of a timestamp following ISO 8601.

XML Schema:

The schema and examples do not explicitly show the lines that set the namespaces.

All schema examples will use xsd: as the namespace for the schema tags and datatypes, and null for all the locally generated namespaces.

The defining file, either peftypes_u.xsd or peftypes_q.xsd, must be imported into the document building the application schema.

It is recommended that these elements and their subelements have a namespace qualifier. The recommended qualifier is 'pef'.

<xsd:element name="timestamp" type="timestamp"/>

Sample Usage Schema:

The element is globally defined. It is recommended that elementFormDefault be "qualified."

  <element name="expiry_date">
   <complexType>
    <sequence>
     <element ref="pef:timestamp"/>
    </sequence>
   </complexType>
  </element>

Sample XML:

The example will show namespace of 'pef'

  <expiry_date>
    <pef:timestamp>
      <pef:date>
        <pef:year>2002</pef:year>
        <pef:month>06</pef:month>
        <pef:day>30</pef:day>
      </pef:date>
      <pef:time>
        <pef:hour>12</pef:hour>
        <pef:uctOffset>-5</pef:uctOffset>
      </pef:time>
    </pef:timestamp>
  </expiry>