[xsl] XSLT Java Extensions

["Garvin Franco" <garvin_franco at hotmail dot com>]

Hello ladies/gents, I am trying to use extensions in XSLT to get the current 
date/time for textual output, but I don't know how to retrieve specific data 
from the object returned.

Below is a sample of the xsl file that makes the extension call:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
              version="1.0"
              xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/xslt/java";>

..
..
<!-- I am making this call inside the template: -->
<xsl:variable name="tmp" select="java:java.util.Calendar.new()"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$tmp" />
..
</xsl:stylesheet>

The problem with this is that, when I instantiate the Calendar object it 
returns a GregorianCalendar object with a great deal of information that I 
don't want. So when I write it to output, the entire object is returned.
All I need on the text output is YYYYMMDDHHMMSS. These details are stored in 
the attributes of the Class.
YEAR MONTH DAY_OF_MONTH HOUR_OF_DAY MINUTE SECOND

I tried using
"<xsl:value-of select="java:java.util.Calendar.get(YEAR)" />" etc., but I 
got error messages when the processor tried to process these lines.

Can someone give me some pointers on this?

Thanks
Garvin

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