RE: Date Conversion

Thanks David.

-----Original Message-----
From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 23 October 2002 12:22
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Date Conversion



> I need to know how to convert an attribute nodeTypeValue to a DATE or
TIME,
> since it is a STRING. In XML and XSLT.

XPath (1) does not have specific types for dates and times. You can use
string functions such as substring and substring-before to convert
between formats such as "jan 1st 2002" and "2002-01-01" but the details
depend on exactly what your input format and desired output formats are.

David

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