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XForms/Date Range Search
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Motivation
You want to limit search results based on one or more dates within items.
Method
We will create a XForms application that will have two calendar selectors. We can use the built-in calendar selector or allow users to select the year, month, day values separately.
Month Code Table
<code-table>
<code-table-name>date-month-code</code-table-name>
<description>A list of all the month codes for doing searchs.</description>
<items>
<item>
<label>January</label>
<numeric-id>1</numeric-id>
<abbreviation>Jan</abbreviation>
<value>january</value>
</item>
<item>
<label>February</label>
<numeric-id>2</numeric-id>
<abbreviation>Feb</abbreviation>
<value>february</value>
</item>
<item>
<label>March</label>
<numeric-id>3</numeric-id>
<abbreviation>Mar</abbreviation>
<value>march</value>
</item>
<item>
<label>April</label>
<numeric-id>4</numeric-id>
<abbreviation>Apr</abbreviation>
<value>april</value>
</item>
<item>
<label>May</label>
<numeric-id>5</numeric-id>
<abbreviation>May</abbreviation>
<value>may</value>
</item>
<item>
<label>June</label>
<numeric-id>6</numeric-id>
<abbreviation>Jun</abbreviation>
<value>june</value>
</item>
<item>
<label>July</label>
<numeric-id>7</numeric-id>
<abbreviation>Jul</abbreviation>
<value>july</value>
</item>
<item>
<label>August</label>
<numeric-id>8</numeric-id>
<abbreviation>Aug</abbreviation>
<value>august</value>
</item>
<item>
<label>September</label>
<numeric-id>9</numeric-id>
<abbreviation>Sep</abbreviation>
<value>september</value>
</item>
<item>
<label>October</label>
<numeric-id>10</numeric-id>
<abbreviation>Oct</abbreviation>
<value>october</value>
</item>
<item>
<label>November</label>
<numeric-id>11</numeric-id>
<abbreviation>Nov</abbreviation>
<value>november</value>
</item>
<item>
<label>December</label>
<numeric-id>12</numeric-id>
<abbreviation>Dec</abbreviation>
<value>december</value>
</item>
</items>
</code-table>