Question : Xquery assign datetime variable

hi,

i have the following code

current-time() + xs:dayTimeDuration(string(concat('PT', $i, 'M')))

which uses the current-time() function from xquery and adds mins to it.

let's say i want to subsitute the current-time() with a date time in string format

25/12/2006 15:00:30

how do i go about doing it?

thanks.

Answer : Xquery assign datetime variable

given that the time value lands in a variable $time

let $time := "25/12/2006 15:00:30"

you can cast to the dataTime format like this

xs:dateTime(replace($time, '(\d+)/(\d+)/(\d+)\s+(.*)$', '$3-$2-$1T$4'))