Re: [xsl] Retrieving the date of processing

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:17 PM 8/15/2004, Ken wrote:
> At 2004-08-16 01:54 +0000, Frans Englich wrote:
> > it would be practical to fill the content of
> > an element with the date of when the actual processing took place
> > ...
> > Is there such a function, or can my problem be solved in some other
> > elegant way?
>
> The design pattern in XSLT 1.0 is to pass the date as a parameter at 
> invocation time.

Or if you're willing to use an extension function, many processors have one 
for this. See http://exslt.org/date/index.html for some options.

Cheers,
Wendell


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