Re: [xsl] Date formatting in XSLT

[Gary Frederick <gary.frederick@xxxxxxxxx>]

With my me tooo hat on

I used the date-time functions in the XSLT Standard Library Steve 
mentioned and was pleased.

It was easy to translate iCalendar dates (20010801T103000)
to something a bit more printable (August  1, 2001 10:30 AM).
  http://xsltsl.sourceforge.net/

Gary

Steve Ball wrote:

> > > What is the general approach to date formatting? Is there any work to
> > > get time and date formatting into the standard?
> > >
> > > The most tempting approach currently is to add an extension function
> > > to Xalan. But I am not all that happy to build a custom solution that
> > > I might not get to work in other Java TrAX implementations.
>
> The XSLT Standard Library, http://xsltsl.sf.net/, has a date-time
> stylesheet module.  This module includes a date formatting function.
>
> You may find XSLTSL a useful alternative to EXSLT since the former
> does not require extensions.  In that sense the two projects are
> complementary.
>
> Regards,
> Steve Ball




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