Re: scripting

Hi.

> I'm converting an xml document to a prism document
> using a stylesheet.  One of the elements in the XML
> document is date, which is given in "MM DD
> YYYY H:MM" format (example: "Jul 10 1999 9:10AM").  I
> want the date to be formated w/ the year first (ex:
> "1999-7-10 9:10AM" ).  Can I change my XSL stylesheet
> to do this?  Do I need to use bean scripting/java
> scripting?  Is this compatible w/ JAXP?

I think that for now pretty clean and portable solution will be a named
template with a parameter.

You define it:

<xsl:template name="datetoprism">
  <xsl:param name="date"/>
  <xsl:value-of select="substring($date,8,11)"/>
  <!-- and so on -->
 </xsl:template>

Call it:

<xsl:call-template name="datetoprism">
  <xsl:with-param name="date" select="'Jul 10 1999 9:10AM'"/>
</xsl:call-template>

The only question left is how to write the conversion routine.
See substring functions. You will probably also need to convert month from
textual representation into a number.

Bye.
/lexi


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