Re: [xsl] date-time formatting question

["Mark Williams" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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: [xsl] 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
>
>
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