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format Elementformat :baseFormat[f_base_format]=(date | time | dateTime | elapsedTime)? :errorCharacter? :separatorChars? :mdyOrder=(dayMonthYear | monthDayYear | yearMonthDay)? :showYear=bool? :showQuarter=bool? :quarterPrefix? :quarterSuffix? :yearAbbreviation=bool? :showMonth=bool? :monthFormat=(long | short | number | paddedNumber)? :dayPadding=bool? :dayOfMonthPadding=bool? :showWeek=bool? :weekPadding=bool? :weekSuffix? :showDayOfWeek=bool? :dayOfWeekAbbreviation=bool? :hourPadding=bool? :minutePadding=bool? :secondPadding=bool? :showDay=bool? :showHour=bool? :showMinute=bool? :showSecond=bool? :showMillis=bool? :dayType=(month | year)? :hourFormat=(AMPM | AS_24 | AS_12)? :minimumIntegerDigits=int? :maximumFractionDigits=int? :minimumFractionDigits=int? :useGrouping=bool? :scientific=(onlyForSmall | whenNeeded | true | false)? :small=real? :prefix? :suffix? :tryStringsAsNumbers=bool? :negativesOutside=bool? => relabel* affix*
This element is the union of all of the more-specific format elements.
It is interpreted in the same way as one of those format elements,
using baseFormat to determine which kind of format to use.
There are a few attributes not present in the more specific formats:
When this is true, it is supposed to indicate that string
values should be parsed as numbers and then displayed according to
numeric formatting rules. However, in the corpus it is always
false.
If true, the negative sign should be shown before the prefix; if false, it should be shown after.