Re: Date Formating

Arthur writes:

>   I'm transforming an xml file that gives me a nicely formatted report
>   (html 80 odd pages).
>   Part of the transform uses format-number() for decimal places etc.
> 
>   one of the elements in the xml, is a date
>   <date-created>2003-01-12</date-created>
> 
>   How do you transform this to 12-Jan-03 ?

   I generally like to use look-up elements for this type of thing. In
version 1.1 you can place elements like:

<data>
  <month-names>
    <month sequence="1">Jan</month>
    <month sequence="2">Feb</month>
    <month sequence="3">Mar</month>
    <month sequence="4">Apr</month>
    <month sequence="5">May</month>
    <month sequence="6">Jun</month>
    <month sequence="7">Jul</month>
    <month sequence="8">Aug</month>
    <month sequence="9">Sep</month>
    <month sequence="10">Oct</month>
    <month sequence="11">Nov</month>
    <month sequence="12">Dec</month>
  </month-names>
</data>

in the stylesheet itself and use the "document('')" function. I
generally place this type of info in a separate file that is consulted
during the transformation. For this example, assume the above contents
are in a file entitled "data.xml":

  <xsl:template match="date-created">
    <!-- get each separate part of the date:
           YYYY-MM-DD
    -->

    <xsl:variable name="year">
      <xsl:value-of select="substring(., 3, 2)"/>
    </xsl:variable>
    <xsl:variable name="month">
      <xsl:value-of select="number(substring(., 6, 2))"/>
    </xsl:variable>
    <xsl:variable name="day">
      <xsl:value-of select="number(substring(., 8, 2))"/>
    </xsl:variable>
        
    <xsl:variable name="month-abbrev">
      <xsl:value-of select="document('data.xml')/data/month-names/month[@sequence =  $month]"/>
    </xsl:variable>

    <!-- and the output -->
    <xsl:value-of select="$day"/>
    <xsl:text>-</xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select="$month-abbrev"/>
    <xsl:text>-</xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select="$year"/>

   The document() function makes the document 'data.xml' just another
data set to work with.

   Elizabeth


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