Subject: Re: [xsl] Release Date vs. Highlight Until Date From: "M. David Peterson" <m.david@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:17:30 -0700 |
Hi,
I am new to the list and XSL in general, so I apologize if this is the wrong forum for this question. I am also simplifying my problem as much as possible. I am also still at a pretty high level, looking more into the concepts than the code. While I would appreciate code examples, simple suggestions of what tokens I should research or URLs with further information would also be appreciated. I am working with a CMS that stores both the information architecture (like a directory structure) and content (like XML files inside the directories) as XML which is transformed using XSL to HTML for distribution to browsers. If what I'm trying to do becomes too complicated for XML I can use pure .NET code, but I'm wondering what XSL solutions might be possible.
Each news record has a "release date" value. I am not sure of the format but hopefully my code could handle multiple formats, or if there is a standard for date formatting in XML maybe the CMS uses that. On a main page I need to list the latest 5 article titles based on this "release date", with links to the article content. That would seem like a simple sort with some kind of break condition after 5 loops (though I'm not even sure how to do that), but the complication is that each record also has a "highlight until" date; if the current system date is before the "highlight until" date, those highlighted records need to appear at the top of the list, which should still be constrained to 5 articles.
It seems that XSL doesn't inherently know what date it is, so either my CMS vendor should already be passing that or I need to figure out how to pass this as a parameter to my XSL. I'm also not finding many web references to this specific kind of date logic. Based on these I'm wondering if a .NET component is the right way to go, but since the data is already in XML I think I would prefer XSL if possible/not too complicated.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
-John
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