onverting a <i>Calendar</i> in a localized
string... we first cast the object to <i>Calendar</i>, extract its <i>Date</i>
and then use a <i>DateFormat</i> factory method to get a date converter to our
localized
string.</p><div class="Source Java"><pre>public void marshal(Object value, HierarchicalStreamWriter writer,
                MarshallingContext context) {

        Calendar calendar = (Calendar) value;

        // grabs the date
        Date date = calendar.getTime();

        // grabs the formatter
 