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When I look at the signature of the format-date() function I see this format: format-date(date, picture, language, calendar, country) with the latter three arguments being optional. Looking at your use: format-date(current-date(), '[Y١] [Mn] [D١]', 'Islamic', 'SH', 'SH'), The "date" part is OK. I can't tell anything about the picture parts. It seems I don't have the correct code page to display the Arabic script. Do you have the correct code page on your computer and is the "encoding" attribute set correctly on the xsl:output element? According to my (very little) research, what's needed in the "language" argument is a two-letter ISO code for the language. "Islamic" is definitely not that. The "SH" in the calendar and country positions gives me a clue that you may want Farsi as the language, in which case the language code should be "fa". If you want the Arabic alphabet, set the language code to "ar" Try this: format-date(current-date(), '[Y١] [Mn] [D١]', 'fa', 'SH', 'SH') or format-date(current-date(), '[Y١] [Mn] [D١]', 'ar', 'SH', 'SH'), Please remember that I'm not offering any advice regarding the "picture", as I don't have the code page on my system that would display the characters correctly. -- Charles Knell cknell@xxxxxxxxxx - email -----Original Message----- From: tom tom <tomxsllist@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:25:04 +0100 To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Calender support I wish to convert a date from the Christian calender to the Hijri (Islamic) calender. I am using XSLT 2.0 with Saxon 8. I have tried various permutations and differences of the following: <xsl:sequence select="format-date(current-date(), '[Y١] [Mn] [D١]', 'Islamic', 'SH', 'SH')"/> This prints the year and day in arabic but remains in the Christian calender. The character ١ doesn't seem to work with [Mn] either. Can anyone advise what I should be doing here? Does Saxon support the arabic calender and does it support other calenders? Thanks Tom _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN Search Toolbar now includes Desktop search! http://join.msn.com/toolbar/overview
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