RE: Date conversion

Katie asks:
> The format of the date returned in my XML is 17-Dec-2000 07:23:31
> I need to display the date as 12/17/2000.
>
> How do I do this using xsl?

Katie,

You can do this as follows:

  <xsl:variable name="months"
                select="'JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec'"/>

  <xsl:template match="date">
      <xsl:text>Old date: </xsl:text>
      <xsl:value-of select="."/>
      <xsl:text>&#x0D;&#x0A;</xsl:text>

      <xsl:variable name="day" select="substring( ., 1, 2 )"/>
      <xsl:variable name="earlier_months"
                    select="substring-before( $months, substring( ., 4,
3 ))"/>
      <xsl:variable name="month_number"
                    select="string-length( $earlier_months ) div 3 + 1"/>
      <xsl:variable name="month"
                    select="format-number( $month_number, '00' )" />
      <xsl:variable name="year" select="substring( ., 8, 4 )"/>
      <xsl:text>New date: </xsl:text>
      <xsl:value-of select="concat( $month, '/', $day, '/', $year )"/>
      <xsl:text>&#x0D;&#x0A;</xsl:text>
  </xsl:template>

Hope this helps.

Bob

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