RE: [xsl] XSLT and Hijri Dates

["Paul Spencer" <xml-dev-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Michael. I might go back to the XSLT 1.0 method of just writing a
lookup for the format I need. Unless anyone else knows of a processor that
supports Arabic in format-date. One thing I have discovered recently is that
Arabic support is pretty poor in most XSL tools. The one I am using for FO
supports the characters, but writes them left to right.

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 11:59 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [xsl] XSLT and Hijri Dates
>
> > I use XML Spy, which does not seem to support the following
> > to format a date as Hijri:
> >
> > <xsl:value-of
> > select="format-date(pp:DateOfBirthHijri,'[D&#x0661;] [Mn]
> > [Y&#x0661;]', 'ar', 'AH')"/>
>
> The format-date() function must have either 2 or 5 arguments. You seem
> to
> have 4. You've left out the last one, which is country (it can be set
> to
> "()").
> >
> > Has anyone else tried this? Does Saxon or any other processor
> > support this?
>
> Saxon has no support for non-Gregorian calendars. You can write a
> localization module for the "ar" language, but not for the "AH"
> calendar.
> >
> > Incidentally, in the XSLT 2.0 specification, the format for
> > this is shown as
> >
> > format-date( $value  as xs:date?, $picture  as xs:string, $language
> >  as xs:string?, $calendar  as xs:string?, $country
> >  as xs:string?) as xs:string?
> >
> > But one of the examples is
> >
> > format-date($d, "[D&#x0661;] [Mn] [Y&#x0661;]", "Islamic",
> > "ar", "AH", ())
>
> This is fixed in erratum XT.E23:
>
> http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E23
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
> http://twitter.com/michaelhkay