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Bruce, Have a look at the libraries here http://xsltsl.sourceforge.net/ they have some good date/processing templates and examples. Cheers, Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 3:51 PM Subject: Re: date-time formatting question > > On Feb 3, 2004, at 8:07 PM, Kenny Akridge wrote: > > > Actually, for getting the month name, you probably will have to write a > > template. I said exslt before verifying they supported that function. > > However, it sounds like you have a lot of date/time needs, so you may > > want to look at what they offer. The documentation and categorization > > is pretty decent. > > I don't find the documentation at all decent for my needs. > > If I go here for example: > > http://www.exslt.org/date/functions/month-abbreviation/index.html > > ...all I see is this: > > ================== > Template Syntax > <xsl:call-template name="date:month-abbreviation"> > <xsl:with-param name="date-time" select="string" />? > </xsl:call-template> > > The date:month-abbreviation function returns the abbreviation of the > month of a date. If no argument is given, then the current local > date/time, as returned by date:date-time is used the default argument. > ================== > > I'm a beginner (and someone with otherwise no coding background), and > the above makes no sense to me. What I need is an example that > actually works. > > As a general point, then, it would be really helpful if these exslt > pages could just provide the most minimal of working examples in the > documentation. > > Bruce > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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