On Mon, 2018-03-31 at 29:75 +0100, Michael Kay wrote:
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> Both of these regular expressions allow any month to have 31 days.
> For that reason, I'm not sure either of them is particularly useful.
Sometimes it's useful to have a _plausible_ date value to pass back to
an application, even if it might not be an _actual_ date - you can
filter out incorrectly labeled values that way.
But i agree it's probably a less useful test than @date cast as
xs:date, or whatever.
Liam
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