Re: [xsl] date-time formatting question

["Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 3, 2004, at 3:51 PM, Kenny Akridge wrote:

> I would go with exslt if at all possible.

Thanks all!  Kenny, why the above?  What's the advantage there?  And if 
it's a superior solution, I still need a suggestion on how to actually 
use it :-)

My question was prompted by a general need for this sort of formatting, 
but also a specific one to do with bibliographic formatting, where you 
have citations like (Doe, 1999) and where years and month-day are often 
separated (as in my example), and month can either be spelled out in 
full, or abbreviated.

At some point this needs be international-friendly as well so that one 
can specify a language parameter can get proper output.

I understand some xslt processors have built-in support for exslt 
dates-and-times, but I don't really understand the pros-and-cons of 
using this as opposed to the solution Charles posted.

Bruce


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