Re: [xsl] Date problem

[Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx>]

Hélder Sousa wrote:
> 	<xsl:element name="input">
> 		<xsl:attribute name="type">hidden</xsl:attribute>
> 		<xsl:attribute name="name">todayDate</xsl:attribute>
> 		<xsl:attribute name="value">????????</xsl:attribute>
> 	</xsl:element>

> The question is: how I put the actual date in "????????"?

100% portable way:

Put <xsl:param name="dateval"/> at the top of your stylesheet
(just before the first template)

and pass $dateval as an external parameter when you invoke the
XSLT processor. (see your XSLT processor's API documentation for
how to do this)

> Is there any function in xsl that returns the actual date?

If your XSLT processor implements the EXSLT extension functions, yes.
See http://exslt.org/date/index.html, particularly date:date-time().
Note that there is even an implementation for MSXML (though you have
to embed it in your stylesheet).


<!--
  xsl:import must be the first thing after xsl:stylesheet.
  You need to get date.msxsl.xsl from
  http://exslt.org/date/functions/date-time/date.msxsl.xsl
-->
<xsl:import href="date.msxsl.xsl"/>

<xsl:param name="dateval"/>

...

<xsl:template ...>

  ...

  <input type="hidden" name="todayDate">
    <xsl:attribute name="value">
      <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="function-available('date:date-time')"
         xmlns:date="http://exslt.org/dates-and-times";>
          <xsl:value-of select="date:date-time()"/>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="$dateval">
          <xsl:value-of select="$dateval"/>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>unknown</xsl:otherwise>
      </xsl:choose>
    </xsl:attribute>
  </input>

  ...

</xsl:template>

Mike

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