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

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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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Ideally, XML processing packages that are schema-aware (or to be used as basis for things that are) should provide accessors for typed content. I know of one (http://woodstox.codehaus.org/), but it does not (yet) offer access to date/time, just simpler types (numeric, arrays, QNames etc). There is a request to support javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar.

Alas, not many do. However, it you are using specific package (like XOM or JDOM etc), it might not be a bad idea to ask this question on their user list.