What's the best way to parse an XML dateTime in Java?

Question

What\'s the best way to parse an XML dateTime in Java? Legal dateTime values include 2002-10-10T12:00:00-05:00 AND 2002-10-10T17:00:00Z

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Answer 1

In XML Beans v2 it would be XmlDateTime.Factory.parse(dateTimeString), but this is awkward because it expects an element with start and end tags like 2011-10-20T15:07:14.112-07:00

An easier approach is to call (new org.apache.xmlbeans.GDate(dateTimeString)).getDate().