XSD date displayed as YYYY-MM-DD+HH-MN: possible to improve format ?

[Sébastien de Mapias]

Hi,

I'm retrieving birthdates from an Oracle DB table, the column type
is DATE.
select to_char(birthdate,'dd/mm/yyyy hh24:mi.ss') from PERSONS
where id = 2 returns the following:
~ 01/01/1968 00:00.00
(so the date is truncated to its midnight value)

In my code I do at some point the following (when I map my persistent
objects to the protocol definition) :
~ protocolPerson.setBirthdate(persistPerson.getBirthdate());
(in this case the type is java.util.Calendar)

In my protocol's xsd, the birthdate is defined as:
~ <xs:element name="birthdate" type="xs:date" minOccurs="0"/>

The problem is that once my XML is processed and displayed, I get
~ <birthdate>1968-01-01+01:00</birthdate>
in my response message.

I added the following in XJB file, to tell the marshaller that the
XSD date type is a java.util.Calendar:
~ <jxb:javaType name="java.util.Calendar" xmlType="xs:date"
~ parseMethod="javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter.parseDate"
~ printMethod="javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter.printDate" />

I'd like to get "<birthdate>1968-01-01</birthdate>", or even better
"<birthdate>01/01/1968</birthdate>".

Is there an easy way to format this output (by playing with the XJB
configuration only maybe) ?

Thanks a lot.
Regards,
Sébastien