RE: date-time formatting question

One option may be to move forward to XSLT 2.0 which offers a
format-date() function.

Michael Kay

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Bruce D'Arcus
> Sent: 03 February 2004 19:54
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> Subject:  date-time formatting question
> 
> 
> 
> I am trying to do something very simple, but I can't figure out how.
> 
> Input example:
> 
> 	<text>
>    	   <date>2003-03-15</date>
> 	</text>
> 
> Desired output:
> 
> 	March 3, 2003
> 
> Another more complex example would be:
> 
> (2003) .... Mar 3
> 
> (The sort of thing you'd see in a formatted bibliographic reference)
> 
> I've gotten far enough to figure out that I probably need to 
> use exslt 
> dates-and-times templates, but the documentation is too thin 
> for me (a 
> non-expert) to understand how to apply.
> 
> Help, please?
> 
> Bruce
> 
> 
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