Re: sort by date

might also have some luck using www.exslt.org date/time templates

gl, jim fuller

> At 10:16 AM 11/26/2002, you wrote:
>>   <a4013 date="1998-01-03T00:00:00">FRUTAS</a4013>
>>
>>the "T00:00:00" has no use but some one can point an
>>idea to get the desired sort by date?
> 
>    The quickest to write and easiest to use IMO would be to use 
>substring-before() and substring-after() to pick apart the date into
>pieces  you want.  For example,
> <xsl:template name="my-date">
>    <xsl:param name="date" value="''"/>
>    <xsl:if test="$date">
>      <xsl:variable name="year" select="substring-before($date, '-')" />
>      <xsl:variable name="month" select="substring-before(
>                                           substring-after($date,
>                                                           '-'),
>                                           '-')" />
>      <xsl:variable name="day" select="substring-before(
>                                         substring-after(
>                                           substring-after($date,
>                                                           '-'),
>                                           '-'),
>                                         'T')" />
>      <!-- Display date components however you'd like -->
>      <!-- This one produces MM/DD/YY -->
>      <xsl:value-of select="$month" />
>      <xsl:text>/</xsl:text>
>      <xsl:value-of select="$day" />
>      <xsl:text>/</xsl:text>
>      <xsl:value-of select="substring($year, 2)" />
>    <xsl:if>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> and call it with something like
> 
> <xsl:call-template name="my-date">
>    <xsl:with-param name="date" select="/a4013-list/a4013[1]/@date" />
> </xsl:call-template>
> 
>    I'm sure that there are other examples out there for transforming 12
>    
> into 'December' and other niceties.
> 
> 
> Greg Faron
> Integre Technical Publishing Co.
> 
> 
> 
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