Class DatatypeFactory

java.lang.Object
javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeFactory

public abstract class DatatypeFactory extends Object
Factory that creates new javax.xml.datatype Objects that map XML to/from Java Objects.

A new instance of the DatatypeFactory is created through the newInstance() method that uses the JAXP Lookup Mechanism to determine the DatatypeFactory implementation class to load.

Since:
1.5
  • Field Details

    • DATATYPEFACTORY_PROPERTY

      public static final String DATATYPEFACTORY_PROPERTY
      Default property name as defined in JSR 206: Java(TM) API for XML Processing (JAXP) 1.3.

      Default value is javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeFactory.

      See Also:
    • DATATYPEFACTORY_IMPLEMENTATION_CLASS

      public static final String DATATYPEFACTORY_IMPLEMENTATION_CLASS
      Default implementation class name as defined in JSR 206: Java(TM) API for XML Processing (JAXP) 1.3.

      Implementers should specify the name of an appropriate class to be instantiated if no other implementation resolution mechanism succeeds.

      Users should not refer to this field; it is intended only to document a factory implementation detail.

  • Constructor Details

    • DatatypeFactory

      protected DatatypeFactory()
      Protected constructor to prevent instantiation outside of package.

      Use newInstance() to create a DatatypeFactory.

  • Method Details

    • newDefaultInstance

      public static DatatypeFactory newDefaultInstance()
      Creates a new instance of the DatatypeFactory builtin system-default implementation.
      Returns:
      A new instance of the DatatypeFactory builtin system-default implementation.
      Since:
      9
    • newInstance

      public static DatatypeFactory newInstance() throws DatatypeConfigurationException
      Obtain a new instance of a DatatypeFactory. This method uses the JAXP Lookup Mechanism to determine the DatatypeFactory implementation class to load.
      Returns:
      New instance of a DatatypeFactory
      Throws:
      DatatypeConfigurationException - If the implementation is not available or cannot be instantiated.
      See Also:
    • newInstance

      public static DatatypeFactory newInstance(String factoryClassName, ClassLoader classLoader) throws DatatypeConfigurationException
      Obtain a new instance of a DatatypeFactory from class name. This function is useful when there are multiple providers in the classpath. It gives more control to the application as it can specify which provider should be loaded.

      Once an application has obtained a reference to a DatatypeFactory it can use the factory to configure and obtain datatype instances.

      Tip for Trouble-shooting

      Setting the jaxp.debug system property will cause this method to print a lot of debug messages to System.err about what it is doing and where it is looking at.

      If you have problems try:

       java -Djaxp.debug=1 YourProgram ....
       
      Parameters:
      factoryClassName - fully qualified factory class name that provides implementation of javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeFactory.
      classLoader - ClassLoader used to load the factory class. If null current Thread's context classLoader is used to load the factory class.
      Returns:
      New instance of a DatatypeFactory
      Throws:
      DatatypeConfigurationException - if factoryClassName is null, or the factory class cannot be loaded, instantiated.
      Since:
      1.6
      See Also:
    • newDuration

      public abstract Duration newDuration(String lexicalRepresentation)
      Obtain a new instance of a Duration specifying the Duration as its string representation, "PnYnMnDTnHnMnS", as defined in XML Schema 1.0 section 3.2.6.1.

      XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes, 3.2.6 duration, defines duration as:

      duration represents a duration of time. The value space of duration is a six-dimensional space where the coordinates designate the Gregorian year, month, day, hour, minute, and second components defined in Section 5.5.3.2 of [ISO 8601], respectively. These components are ordered in their significance by their order of appearance i.e. as year, month, day, hour, minute, and second.

      All six values are set and available from the created Duration

      The XML Schema specification states that values can be of an arbitrary size. Implementations may chose not to or be incapable of supporting arbitrarily large and/or small values. An UnsupportedOperationException will be thrown with a message indicating implementation limits if implementation capacities are exceeded.

      Parameters:
      lexicalRepresentation - String representation of a Duration.
      Returns:
      New Duration created from parsing the lexicalRepresentation.
      Throws:
      IllegalArgumentException - If lexicalRepresentation is not a valid representation of a Duration.
      UnsupportedOperationException - If implementation cannot support requested values.
      NullPointerException - if lexicalRepresentation is null.
    • newDuration

      public abstract Duration newDuration(long durationInMilliSeconds)
      Obtain a new instance of a Duration specifying the Duration as milliseconds.

      XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes, 3.2.6 duration, defines duration as:

      duration represents a duration of time. The value space of duration is a six-dimensional space where the coordinates designate the Gregorian year, month, day, hour, minute, and second components defined in Section 5.5.3.2 of [ISO 8601], respectively. These components are ordered in their significance by their order of appearance i.e. as year, month, day, hour, minute, and second.

      All six values are set by computing their values from the specified milliseconds and are available using the get methods of the created Duration. The values conform to and are defined by:

      The default start instance is defined by GregorianCalendar's use of the start of the epoch: i.e., Calendar.YEAR = 1970, Calendar.MONTH = Calendar.JANUARY, Calendar.DATE = 1, etc. This is important as there are variations in the Gregorian Calendar, e.g. leap years have different days in the month = Calendar.FEBRUARY so the result of Duration.getMonths() and Duration.getDays() can be influenced.

      Parameters:
      durationInMilliSeconds - Duration in milliseconds to create.
      Returns:
      New Duration representing durationInMilliSeconds.
    • newDuration

      public abstract Duration newDuration(boolean isPositive, BigInteger years, BigInteger months, BigInteger days, BigInteger hours, BigInteger minutes, BigDecimal seconds)
      Obtain a new instance of a Duration specifying the Duration as isPositive, years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds.

      The XML Schema specification states that values can be of an arbitrary size. Implementations may chose not to or be incapable of supporting arbitrarily large and/or small values. An UnsupportedOperationException will be thrown with a message indicating implementation limits if implementation capacities are exceeded.

      A null value indicates that field is not set.

      Parameters:
      isPositive - Set to false to create a negative duration. When the length of the duration is zero, this parameter will be ignored.
      years - of this Duration
      months - of this Duration
      days - of this Duration
      hours - of this Duration
      minutes - of this Duration
      seconds - of this Duration
      Returns:
      New Duration created from the specified values.
      Throws:
      IllegalArgumentException - If the values are not a valid representation of a Duration: if all the fields (years, months, ...) are null or if any of the fields is negative.
      UnsupportedOperationException - If implementation cannot support requested values.
    • newDuration

      public Duration newDuration(boolean isPositive, int years, int months, int days, int hours, int minutes, int seconds)
      Obtain a new instance of a Duration specifying the Duration as isPositive, years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds.

      A DatatypeConstants.FIELD_UNDEFINED value indicates that field is not set.

      Parameters:
      isPositive - Set to false to create a negative duration. When the length of the duration is zero, this parameter will be ignored.
      years - of this Duration
      months - of this Duration
      days - of this Duration
      hours - of this Duration
      minutes - of this Duration
      seconds - of this Duration
      Returns:
      New Duration created from the specified values.
      Throws:
      IllegalArgumentException - If the values are not a valid representation of a Duration: if any of the fields is negative.
      See Also:
    • newDurationDayTime

      public Duration newDurationDayTime(String lexicalRepresentation)
      Create a Duration of type xdt:dayTimeDuration by parsing its String representation, "PnDTnHnMnS", XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model, xdt:dayTimeDuration.

      The datatype xdt:dayTimeDuration is a subtype of xs:duration whose lexical representation contains only day, hour, minute, and second components. This datatype resides in the namespace http://www.w3.org/2003/11/xpath-datatypes.

      All four values are set and available from the created Duration

      The XML Schema specification states that values can be of an arbitrary size. Implementations may chose not to or be incapable of supporting arbitrarily large and/or small values. An UnsupportedOperationException will be thrown with a message indicating implementation limits if implementation capacities are exceeded.

      Parameters:
      lexicalRepresentation - Lexical representation of a duration.
      Returns:
      New Duration created using the specified lexicalRepresentation.
      Throws:
      IllegalArgumentException - If lexicalRepresentation is not a valid representation of a Duration expressed only in terms of days and time.
      UnsupportedOperationException - If implementation cannot support requested values.
      NullPointerException - If lexicalRepresentation is null.
    • newDurationDayTime

      public Duration newDurationDayTime(long durationInMilliseconds)
      Create a Duration of type xdt:dayTimeDuration using the specified milliseconds as defined in XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model, xdt:dayTimeDuration.

      The datatype xdt:dayTimeDuration is a subtype of xs:duration whose lexical representation contains only day, hour, minute, and second components. This datatype resides in the namespace http://www.w3.org/2003/11/xpath-datatypes.

      All four values are set by computing their values from the specified milliseconds and are available using the get methods of the created Duration. The values conform to and are defined by:

      The default start instance is defined by GregorianCalendar's use of the start of the epoch: i.e., Calendar.YEAR = 1970, Calendar.MONTH = Calendar.JANUARY, Calendar.DATE = 1, etc. This is important as there are variations in the Gregorian Calendar, e.g. leap years have different days in the month = Calendar.FEBRUARY so the result of Duration.getDays() can be influenced.

      Any remaining milliseconds after determining the day, hour, minute and second are discarded.

      Parameters:
      durationInMilliseconds - Milliseconds of Duration to create.
      Returns:
      New Duration created with the specified durationInMilliseconds.
      See Also:
    • newDurationDayTime

      public Duration newDurationDayTime(boolean isPositive, BigInteger day, BigInteger hour, BigInteger minute, BigInteger second)
      Create a Duration of type xdt:dayTimeDuration using the specified day, hour, minute and second as defined in XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model, xdt:dayTimeDuration.

      The datatype xdt:dayTimeDuration is a subtype of xs:duration whose lexical representation contains only day, hour, minute, and second components. This datatype resides in the namespace http://www.w3.org/2003/11/xpath-datatypes.

      The XML Schema specification states that values can be of an arbitrary size. Implementations may chose not to or be incapable of supporting arbitrarily large and/or small values. An UnsupportedOperationException will be thrown with a message indicating implementation limits if implementation capacities are exceeded.

      A null value indicates that field is not set.

      Parameters:
      isPositive - Set to false to create a negative duration. When the length of the duration is zero, this parameter will be ignored.
      day - Day of Duration.
      hour - Hour of Duration.
      minute - Minute of Duration.
      second - Second of Duration.
      Returns:
      New Duration created with the specified day, hour, minute and second.
      Throws:
      IllegalArgumentException - If the values are not a valid representation of a Duration: if all the fields (day, hour, ...) are null or if any of the fields is negative.
      UnsupportedOperationException - If implementation cannot support requested values.
    • newDurationDayTime

      public Duration newDurationDayTime(boolean isPositive, int day, int hour, int minute, int second)
      Create a Duration of type xdt:dayTimeDuration using the specified day, hour, minute and second as defined in XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model, xdt:dayTimeDuration.

      The datatype xdt:dayTimeDuration is a subtype of xs:duration whose lexical representation contains only day, hour, minute, and second components. This datatype resides in the namespace http://www.w3.org/2003/11/xpath-datatypes.

      A DatatypeConstants.FIELD_UNDEFINED value indicates that field is not set.

      Parameters:
      isPositive - Set to false to create a negative duration. When the length of the duration is zero, this parameter will be ignored.
      day - Day of Duration.
      hour - Hour of Duration.
      minute - Minute of Duration.
      second - Second of Duration.
      Returns:
      New Duration created with the specified day, hour, minute and second.
      Throws:
      IllegalArgumentException - If the values are not a valid representation of a Duration: if any of the fields (day, hour, ...) is negative.
    • newDurationYearMonth

      public Duration newDurationYearMonth(String lexicalRepresentation)
      Create a Duration of type xdt:yearMonthDuration by parsing its String representation, "PnYnM", XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model, xdt:yearMonthDuration.

      The datatype xdt:yearMonthDuration is a subtype of xs:duration whose lexical representation contains only year and month components. This datatype resides in the namespace XMLConstants.W3C_XPATH_DATATYPE_NS_URI.

      Both values are set and available from the created Duration

      The XML Schema specification states that values can be of an arbitrary size. Implementations may chose not to or be incapable of supporting arbitrarily large and/or small values. An UnsupportedOperationException will be thrown with a message indicating implementation limits if implementation capacities are exceeded.

      Parameters:
      lexicalRepresentation - Lexical representation of a duration.
      Returns:
      New Duration created using the specified lexicalRepresentation.
      Throws:
      IllegalArgumentException - If lexicalRepresentation is not a valid representation of a Duration expressed only in terms of years and months.
      UnsupportedOperationException - If implementation cannot support requested values.
      NullPointerException - If lexicalRepresentation is null.
    • newDurationYearMonth

      public Duration newDurationYearMonth(long durationInMilliseconds)
      Create a Duration of type xdt:yearMonthDuration using the specified milliseconds as defined in XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model, xdt:yearMonthDuration.

      The datatype xdt:yearMonthDuration is a subtype of xs:duration whose lexical representation contains only year and month components. This datatype resides in the namespace XMLConstants.W3C_XPATH_DATATYPE_NS_URI.

      Both values are set by computing their values from the specified milliseconds and are available using the get methods of the created Duration. The values conform to and are defined by:

      The default start instance is defined by GregorianCalendar's use of the start of the epoch: i.e., Calendar.YEAR = 1970, Calendar.MONTH = Calendar.JANUARY, Calendar.DATE = 1, etc. This is important as there are variations in the Gregorian Calendar, e.g. leap years have different days in the month = Calendar.FEBRUARY so the result of Duration.getMonths() can be influenced.

      Any remaining milliseconds after determining the year and month are discarded.

      Parameters:
      durationInMilliseconds - Milliseconds of Duration to create.
      Returns:
      New Duration created using the specified durationInMilliseconds.
    • newDurationYearMonth

      public Duration newDurationYearMonth(boolean isPositive, BigInteger year, BigInteger month)
      Create a Duration of type xdt:yearMonthDuration using the specified year and month as defined in XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model, xdt:yearMonthDuration.

      The XML Schema specification states that values can be of an arbitrary size. Implementations may chose not to or be incapable of supporting arbitrarily large and/or small values. An UnsupportedOperationException will be thrown with a message indicating implementation limits if implementation capacities are exceeded.

      A null value indicates that field is not set.

      Parameters:
      isPositive - Set to false to create a negative duration. When the length of the duration is zero, this parameter will be ignored.
      year - Year of Duration.
      month - Month of Duration.
      Returns:
      New Duration created using the specified year and month.
      Throws:
      IllegalArgumentException - If the values are not a valid representation of a Duration: if all of the fields (year, month) are null or if any of the fields is negative.
      UnsupportedOperationException - If implementation cannot support requested values.
    • newDurationYearMonth

      public Duration newDurationYearMonth(boolean isPositive, int year, int month)
      Create a Duration of type xdt:yearMonthDuration using the specified year and month as defined in XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model, xdt:yearMonthDuration.

      A DatatypeConstants.FIELD_UNDEFINED value indicates that field is not set.

      Parameters:
      isPositive - Set to false to create a negative duration. When the length of the duration is zero, this parameter will be ignored.
      year - Year of Duration.
      month - Month of Duration.
      Returns:
      New Duration created using the specified year and month.
      Throws:
      IllegalArgumentException - If the values are not a valid representation of a Duration: if any of the fields (year, month) is negative.
    • newXMLGregorianCalendar

      public abstract XMLGregorianCalendar newXMLGregorianCalendar()
      Create a new instance of an XMLGregorianCalendar.

      All date/time datatype fields set to DatatypeConstants.FIELD_UNDEFINED or null.

      Returns:
      New XMLGregorianCalendar with all date/time datatype fields set to DatatypeConstants.FIELD_UNDEFINED or null.
    • newXMLGregorianCalendar

      public abstract XMLGregorianCalendar newXMLGregorianCalendar(String lexicalRepresentation)
      Create a new XMLGregorianCalendar by parsing the String as a lexical representation.

      Parsing the lexical string representation is defined in XML Schema 1.0 Part 2, Section 3.2.[7-14].1, Lexical Representation.

      The string representation may not have any leading and trailing whitespaces.

      The parsing is done field by field so that the following holds for any lexically correct String x:

       newXMLGregorianCalendar(x).toXMLFormat().equals(x)
       

      Except for the noted lexical/canonical representation mismatches listed in XML Schema 1.0 errata, Section 3.2.7.2.

      Parameters:
      lexicalRepresentation - Lexical representation of one the eight XML Schema date/time datatypes.
      Returns:
      XMLGregorianCalendar created from the lexicalRepresentation.
      Throws:
      IllegalArgumentException - If the lexicalRepresentation is not a valid XMLGregorianCalendar.
      NullPointerException - If lexicalRepresentation is null.
    • newXMLGregorianCalendar

      public abstract XMLGregorianCalendar newXMLGregorianCalendar(GregorianCalendar cal)
      Create an XMLGregorianCalendar from a GregorianCalendar.
      Field by Field Conversion from GregorianCalendar to an XMLGregorianCalendar
      java.util.GregorianCalendar field javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar field
      ERA == GregorianCalendar.BC ? -YEAR : YEAR XMLGregorianCalendar.setYear(int year)
      MONTH + 1 XMLGregorianCalendar.setMonth(int month)
      DAY_OF_MONTH XMLGregorianCalendar.setDay(int day)
      HOUR_OF_DAY, MINUTE, SECOND, MILLISECOND XMLGregorianCalendar.setTime(int hour, int minute, int second, BigDecimal fractional)
      (ZONE_OFFSET + DST_OFFSET) / (60*1000)
      (in minutes)
      XMLGregorianCalendar.setTimezone(int offset)*

      *conversion loss of information. It is not possible to represent a java.util.GregorianCalendar daylight savings timezone id in the XML Schema 1.0 date/time datatype representation.

      To compute the return value's TimeZone field,

      • when this.getTimezone() != FIELD_UNDEFINED, create a java.util.TimeZone with a custom timezone id using the this.getTimezone().
      • else use the GregorianCalendar default timezone value for the host is defined as specified by java.util.TimeZone.getDefault().
      Parameters:
      cal - java.util.GregorianCalendar used to create XMLGregorianCalendar
      Returns:
      XMLGregorianCalendar created from java.util.GregorianCalendar
      Throws:
      NullPointerException - If cal is null.
    • newXMLGregorianCalendar

      public abstract XMLGregorianCalendar newXMLGregorianCalendar(BigInteger year, int month, int day, int hour, int minute, int second, BigDecimal fractionalSecond, int timezone)
      Constructor allowing for complete value spaces allowed by W3C XML Schema 1.0 recommendation for xsd:dateTime and related builtin datatypes. Note that year parameter supports arbitrarily large numbers and fractionalSecond has infinite precision.

      A null value indicates that field is not set.

      Parameters:
      year - of XMLGregorianCalendar to be created.
      month - of XMLGregorianCalendar to be created.
      day - of XMLGregorianCalendar to be created.
      hour - of XMLGregorianCalendar to be created.
      minute - of XMLGregorianCalendar to be created.
      second - of XMLGregorianCalendar to be created.
      fractionalSecond - of XMLGregorianCalendar to be created.
      timezone - of XMLGregorianCalendar to be created.
      Returns:
      XMLGregorianCalendar created from specified values.
      Throws:
      IllegalArgumentException - If any individual parameter's value is outside the maximum value constraint for the field as determined by the Date/Time Data Mapping table in XMLGregorianCalendar or if the composite values constitute an invalid XMLGregorianCalendar instance as determined by XMLGregorianCalendar.isValid().
    • newXMLGregorianCalendar

      public XMLGregorianCalendar newXMLGregorianCalendar(int year, int month, int day, int hour, int minute, int second, int millisecond, int timezone)
      Constructor of value spaces that a java.util.GregorianCalendar instance would need to convert to an XMLGregorianCalendar instance.

      XMLGregorianCalendar eon and fractionalSecond are set to null

      A DatatypeConstants.FIELD_UNDEFINED value indicates that field is not set.

      Parameters:
      year - of XMLGregorianCalendar to be created.
      month - of XMLGregorianCalendar to be created.
      day - of XMLGregorianCalendar to be created.
      hour - of XMLGregorianCalendar to be created.
      minute - of XMLGregorianCalendar to be created.
      second - of XMLGregorianCalendar to be created.
      millisecond - of XMLGregorianCalendar to be created.
      timezone - of XMLGregorianCalendar to be created.
      Returns:
      XMLGregorianCalendar created from specified values.
      Throws:
      IllegalArgumentException - If any individual parameter's value is outside the maximum value constraint for the field as determined by the Date/Time Data Mapping table in XMLGregorianCalendar or if the composite values constitute an invalid XMLGregorianCalendar instance as determined by XMLGregorianCalendar.isValid().
    • newXMLGregorianCalendarDate

      public XMLGregorianCalendar newXMLGregorianCalendarDate(int year, int month, int day, int timezone)
      Create a Java representation of XML Schema builtin datatype date or g*.

      For example, an instance of gYear can be created invoking this factory with month and day parameters set to DatatypeConstants.FIELD_UNDEFINED.

      A DatatypeConstants.FIELD_UNDEFINED value indicates that field is not set.

      Parameters:
      year - of XMLGregorianCalendar to be created.
      month - of XMLGregorianCalendar to be created.
      day - of XMLGregorianCalendar to be created.
      timezone - offset in minutes. DatatypeConstants.FIELD_UNDEFINED indicates optional field is not set.
      Returns:
      XMLGregorianCalendar created from parameter values.
      Throws:
      IllegalArgumentException - If any individual parameter's value is outside the maximum value constraint for the field as determined by the Date/Time Data Mapping table in XMLGregorianCalendar or if the composite values constitute an invalid XMLGregorianCalendar instance as determined by XMLGregorianCalendar.isValid().
      See Also:
    • newXMLGregorianCalendarTime

      public XMLGregorianCalendar newXMLGregorianCalendarTime(int hours, int minutes, int seconds, int timezone)
      Create a Java instance of XML Schema builtin datatype time.

      A DatatypeConstants.FIELD_UNDEFINED value indicates that field is not set.

      Parameters:
      hours - number of hours
      minutes - number of minutes
      seconds - number of seconds
      timezone - offset in minutes. DatatypeConstants.FIELD_UNDEFINED indicates optional field is not set.
      Returns:
      XMLGregorianCalendar created from parameter values.
      Throws:
      IllegalArgumentException - If any individual parameter's value is outside the maximum value constraint for the field as determined by the Date/Time Data Mapping table in XMLGregorianCalendar or if the composite values constitute an invalid XMLGregorianCalendar instance as determined by XMLGregorianCalendar.isValid().
      See Also:
    • newXMLGregorianCalendarTime

      public XMLGregorianCalendar newXMLGregorianCalendarTime(int hours, int minutes, int seconds, BigDecimal fractionalSecond, int timezone)
      Create a Java instance of XML Schema builtin datatype time.

      A null value indicates that field is not set.

      A DatatypeConstants.FIELD_UNDEFINED value indicates that field is not set.

      Parameters:
      hours - number of hours
      minutes - number of minutes
      seconds - number of seconds
      fractionalSecond - value of null indicates that this optional field is not set.
      timezone - offset in minutes. DatatypeConstants.FIELD_UNDEFINED indicates optional field is not set.
      Returns:
      XMLGregorianCalendar created from parameter values.
      Throws:
      IllegalArgumentException - If any individual parameter's value is outside the maximum value constraint for the field as determined by the Date/Time Data Mapping table in XMLGregorianCalendar or if the composite values constitute an invalid XMLGregorianCalendar instance as determined by XMLGregorianCalendar.isValid().
      See Also:
    • newXMLGregorianCalendarTime

      public XMLGregorianCalendar newXMLGregorianCalendarTime(int hours, int minutes, int seconds, int milliseconds, int timezone)
      Create a Java instance of XML Schema builtin datatype time.

      A DatatypeConstants.FIELD_UNDEFINED value indicates that field is not set.

      Parameters:
      hours - number of hours
      minutes - number of minutes
      seconds - number of seconds
      milliseconds - number of milliseconds
      timezone - offset in minutes. DatatypeConstants.FIELD_UNDEFINED indicates optional field is not set.
      Returns:
      XMLGregorianCalendar created from parameter values.
      Throws:
      IllegalArgumentException - If any individual parameter's value is outside the maximum value constraint for the field as determined by the Date/Time Data Mapping table in XMLGregorianCalendar or if the composite values constitute an invalid XMLGregorianCalendar instance as determined by XMLGregorianCalendar.isValid().
      See Also: