Hi Doug,

There are two versions of Saxon:  one commercial (Saxon-SA) and one
open-source (Saxon-B) licensed under the Mozilla Public License 1.0 (MPL).
The open-source version is free (as in beer).

More information at http://saxon.sourceforge.net/

cheers,
alex


On 1/8/07, Jackson, Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Hi!
Alex - Thanks for the references.

I am curious about the licensing impacts of the fact that Ode uses
Saxon.

Saxon appears to have license fees.  Are those waived when a commercial
product uses Ode?
-Doug.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Boisvert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 11:20 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Date functions

Hi Doug,

I would suggest using the XPath 2.0 expression language that supports
many
date-time manipulation functions:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-operators/#durations-dates-times

We use Saxon for the implementation of XPath 2.0, so you can also refer
to
Saxon's own documentation for function details:

http://www.saxonica.com/documentation/functions/intro.html

cheers,
alex


On 1/5/07, Jackson, Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi!
> I am curious what functions I would use with the Ode bpel engine
> for some date calculations.  In particular I need the following
>
> 1. Get the current time of day (hours & minutes)
> 2. Add/subtract duration to/from the current time of day
> 3. compare current time of day to another time of day (checking to see
> if current time is within a time range actually)
>
> In general if there is some URL pointing to a specification describing
> the functions that can be used in xpath expressions within bpel
> processes
> I would like to have that.  I am not sure as to which one I should
> refer.
> Thanks in advance!
> -Doug.
>

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