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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2005 Alfresco, Inc.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Mozilla Public License version 1.1 
+ * with a permitted attribution clause. You may obtain a
+ * copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.alfresco.org/legal/license.txt
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND,
+ * either express or implied. See the License for the specific
+ * language governing permissions and limitations under the
+ * License.
+ */
+package org.alfresco.repo.dictionary;
+
+import java.text.ParseException;
+import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
+import java.util.Date;
+
+import org.alfresco.util.CachingDateFormat;
+
+
+/**
+ * Support translating model from and to XML
+ * 
+ * @author David Caruana
+ *
+ */
+public class M2XML
+{
+   
+    /**
+     * Convert XML date (of the form yyyy-MM-dd) to Date 
+     * 
+     * @param date  the xml representation of the date
+     * @return  the date
+     * @throws ParseException
+     */
+    public static Date deserialiseDate(String date)
+        throws ParseException
+    {
+        Date xmlDate = null;
+        if (date != null)
+        {
+            SimpleDateFormat df = CachingDateFormat.getDateOnlyFormat();
+            xmlDate = df.parse(date);
+        }
+        return xmlDate;
+    }
+
+    
+    /**
+     * Convert date to XML date (of the form yyyy-MM-dd)
+     * 
+     * @param date  the date
+     * @return  the xml representation of the date
+     */
+    public static String serialiseDate(Date date)
+    {
+        String xmlDate = null;
+        if (date != null)
+        {
+            SimpleDateFormat df = CachingDateFormat.getDateOnlyFormat();
+            xmlDate = df.format(date);
+        }
+        return xmlDate;
+    }
+    
+}