General documentation of the arapXML:DateTime type:
The arapXML:dateTime type is used in every element of arapXML requiring a date.
This object is a subset of XML Schema dateTime parser, in which only one element
"yyyy-mm-ss" is required, and fewer options are allowed, to protect
the usability of this vocabulary by devices and lightweight applications.
A reasonable degree of interoperability with XML Schema (http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/
) dateTime is preserved, as follows:
For example, to indicate 1:20 pm on May the 31st, 1999 for
Eastern Standard Time which is 5 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC),
one would write: 1999-05-31T13:20:00-05:00.
General ledger entries require a large variety of date and timestamps.
The qualifier element within the dateTime structure can carry any qualifier required by participants in
e-business. For examples, see the 33 datetime qualifiers used in the OAGIS
specification, or the 697 datetime qualifiers in the EDIFACT 2005 segment.
The default set of valid qualifiers in ArapXML
are as follows (preliminary discussion draft): creation, execution, posting, due, payment, received, sent,
shipped...
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dateTime elements,
and general usage of the elements:
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Usage
as child of ledger
element: |
| 1. |
date
A date,
in "yyyy-mm-dd" format.
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date
"yyyy-mm-dd" pertaining to this GLTransactionSet. See qualifier. |
| 2. |
time
A time,
in "hh:mm:ss" format. |
a point in time, "hh:mm:ss"
pertaining to this GLTransactionSet. See qualifier. |
| 3. |
qualifier
adjective or descriptor expressing the meaning of this dateTime. |
Identifies how
this point in time pertains to the GLTransactionSet.
If qualifier is empty, this dateTime is that point in time
when this GLTransactionSet is a valid member of the ledger
identified in the <ledger> element, i.e. at which this
instance was copied from or generated by the source ledger. |
| 4. |
timeZone
hours +(-) UTC (GMT) for example, NY is -05:00 |
hours +(-)
UTC (GMT) for example, NY is -05:00 |
Footnote; GLTransactionSet portion of arapXML
v. .087
<xsd:element name="GLTransactionSet">
<xsd:complexType>
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="ledger" type="IdType" minOccurs="0"/>
<xsd:element name="ledgerDate" type="DateTime" minOccurs="0"/>
<xsd:element name="batchDoc" type="DocRef" minOccurs="0"/>
<xsd:element name="controlTotal" type="GLAccount" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
<xsd:element name="GLtransaction" type="GLTransaction" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>
