format-date? Was: XSLT and XPath Proposed Recommendations

James,

The proposed recommendations looks wonderful. The only thing which I 
would have wished for is a "format-date" function

  string format-date(date-string,from-format,to-format)

to allow date/time conversions... horribly useful buggers. The formats
would be as specified by the Java 1.1 SimpleDateFormat class:

http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/docs/api/java.text.SimpleDateFormat.html

Thanks!

Clark


On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, James Clark wrote:

> XSLT and XPath have been published as Proposed Recommendations. See
> 
>  http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt
>  http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath
> 
> For both, there are changes from the Last Call Working Drafts (more in
> XSLT than in XPath). As usual, these are Appendices detailing these:
> 
>  http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Changes-from-Last-Call-Working-Draft
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#section-Changes-from-Previous-Public-Working-Draft
> 
> James
> 
> 
> 
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