Re: [xsl] Date formatting in XSLT

[Gary Frederick <gary dot frederick at jsoft dot com>]

With my me tooo hat on

I used the date-time functions in the XSLT Standard Library Steve 
mentioned and was pleased.

It was easy to translate iCalendar dates (20010801T103000)
to something a bit more printable (August  1, 2001 10:30 AM).
   http://xsltsl.sourceforge.net/

Gary

Steve Ball wrote:

>>>What is the general approach to date formatting? Is there any work to
>>>get time and date formatting into the standard?
>>>
>>>The most tempting approach currently is to add an extension function
>>>to Xalan. But I am not all that happy to build a custom solution that
>>>I might not get to work in other Java TrAX implementations.
>>>
> 
> The XSLT Standard Library, http://xsltsl.sf.net/, has a date-time
> stylesheet module.  This module includes a date formatting function.
> 
> You may find XSLTSL a useful alternative to EXSLT since the former
> does not require extensions.  In that sense the two projects are
> complementary.
> 
> Regards,
> Steve Ball
> 
> 




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