Re: [XSL] Get time and data

KOBILY <KOBILY@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi !!!!
> 
> I need to get the data and time but I do not want to use javascript, 
> `perl, php, etc.
> Could I get the date and time using xsl ?
> 
> Thanks.

There is currently no way to do this from within an XSL sheet.
I use external tools to write the desired information into a
XML file and get the value into the XSL sheet by using document():

Command line frame (requires Unix toolset, Korn shell or bash):

cat >time.xml <<EOF
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<time>$(date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")</time>
EOF
saxon -o $3 $1 $2

XSL snippet:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

  <xsl:variable name="time" select="document('time.xml')/time"/>
...

This reads a nicely formatted timestamp into the $time variable.
If you need year, month, day etc. separately, you could structure the
time.xml file:

cat >time.xml <<EOF
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<time>
  <year>$(date "+%Y")</year>
  <month>$(date "+%m")</month>
   ...
</time>
EOF


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

  <xsl:variable name="time" select="document('time.xml')/time"/>

  ... 
    <my-year><xsl:value-of select="$time/year"/></my-year>
  ...

Of course, if you work on Windows, creating time.xml may be a
greater challenge. I installed an Unix toolset on my windows
machine (the example above was developed on windows!). There are
several, you might want to check out the free CYGWIN toolkit
at http://www.cygwin.org . Alternatively, you can use WSH, Visual
Basic, Perl or write a java program.

HTH
J.Pietschmann

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