Re: [xsl] Date

[Joerg Heinicke <joerg.heinicke@xxxxxx>]

There is nothing known about DATE in XSLT, i.e. there is no data type 
DATE. You must know, what is a DATE. Or you must use some extension 
function, but they are processor dependent.

Joerg

Vijaya Kumar Y wrote:
> Sorry , Sorry the question was how to identify that it is a date value(or in
> the other words how do u decide whether it is date)
>
> like in any other languages we check like IsDate("23122002") ,
> in same way can i know whether it is a date based on that i would like to
> format the  date part
>
> regards
> Vijay
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stevenson Ngila [mailto:Stevenson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>
> Try:
>
> <xsl:value-of
> select="substring(Row[@id='0']/Col[@name='MfgDate'][@value],1,2 )"
> <xsl:value-of
> select="substring(Row[@id='0']/Col[@name='MfgDate'][@value],3,2 )"
> <xsl:value-of
> select="substring(Row[@id='0']/Col[@name='MfgDate'][@value],5,4 )"
>
> Am not very sure about the path, but the general idea is to use the
> substring function.


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