Subject: Re: [xsl] Understanding XSLT Questions From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:51:33 GMT |
> But, in the real world, dates are in YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS format, not > <year>YYYY</year><month>mm</month>. In my real world dates are more often in "December 25th" format. YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS format is fairly easy to deal wth in XSLT 1 as it's highly regularL you just need a few substring calls. Given a template library that handles this the end user shouldn't really miss any functionality here. or you can use vendor extensions for dates, see EXSLT date functions for example http://www.exslt.org/date > If we don't have general purpose string handling functions then we must at > least have functions that can operate on known data-types (date, list, etc). > But these are also missing in XSLT 1.0. There are functions (id(), unparsed-entity-uri()) to handle the the built in datatypes of XML 1.0. XML 1.0 doesn't include a built in date datatype. So you have to define "known". David ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________
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