RE: Date formatting in XSLT ?

I have passed the format string in as a parameter and used external Java
functions, via Xalan, to do the formatting. 


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-----Original Message-----
From: G. Ken Holman [mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 10:51 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Date formatting in XSLT ?

At 2004-03-03 18:29 +0200, Kaarle Kaila wrote:
>I looked at Michael Kay's book and could not find anything about Date
>formatting. My specific question is that is it possible to convert a
>java-type time in milliseconds since 1970?  to some human readable
Date/Time
>format?

Not in XSLT 1.0 ... the typical design pattern is to do such conversion 
outside of XSLT and supply the converted value as a text string to a 
top-level parameter in the stylesheet.

I hope this helps.

......................... Ken


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