Re: [xsl] String manipulation question

[Jeni Tennison <jeni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bodrul,

> I've never used any of these external libraries before. For future
> reference, do I just declare the library(eg EXSLT library) namespace
> and that's it!

Nope, you have to download the template somewhere local and import it
into your stylesheet. You also have to declare the namespace in order
to call the template:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
                xmlns:date="http://exslt.org/dates-and-times";
                exclude-result-prefixes="date">

<xsl:import href="date.format-date.template.xsl" />
...

  <xsl:call-template name="date:format-date">
    <xsl:with-param name="date-time" select="'2002-03-04'" />
    <xsl:with-param name="pattern" select="'d mmm yy'" />
  </xsl:call-template>

...
</xsl:stylesheet>

Actually, you probably need date.parse-date.template.xsl as well (or
instead -- I misinterpreted what you were doing) in order to get your
original date into the standard ISO format so that it can be
formatted.  See http://www.exslt.org/date/functions/parse-date/.

Cheers,

Jeni

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