Am I missing something in the question? I can't see the difficulty. For
example,

contains(pubDate, ':')

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jayashree venkatesh [mailto:jaya.venk@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 09 January 2008 07:13
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Is there any way to identify the date format ?
> 
> Hello,
>    
>       I am a newbie to XSL . I have 2 XML feeds which have a 
> pubdate tag having different date formats . One uses the 
> standard RFC 822 format and the other non RFC 822 format.
> 
> 1 st feed
> -----------------
> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:24:04 -0600</pubDate>    (RFC 822) 
> 
> 2 nd feed
> --------------------
> <pubDate>March 7, 2007</pubDate>
> 
> I
> want to convert both these date formats to ISO 8601 
> format.The point is i want to do this in a single XSL file . 
> I know there are substring() and concat() functions which can 
> help me achieve this. Now my question is, how can I identify 
> which format the date is ( 1st format or 2 nd ) in the first 
> place ? If i can identify which format the date is in, I can 
> covert them to ISO 8601 format.
> 
> Thanks in
>  advance,
> Jayashree Venkatesh
> 
> 
> 
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