if u want to just use javascript, there is a javascript implementation of
most of the date formating fucntions ( by chris bayes )

www.exslt.org

cheers, jim

(ok, thats enough for today )

----- Original Message -----
From: "Samina Islam" <samnaz123@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 7:48 PM
Subject:  date formating


> Hi
>
> I have asked this question before and Jeni gave me a
> solution using only XSL.  I realize now that it might
> be better to do it with java and extensions. So any
> other suggestions on how to do this would be helpful.
> Someone previous had mentioned using java or java
> script.  How can I do this using java/javascript?
>
> So again this is what I want to do.
>
> I'm converting an xml document to a prism document
> using a stylesheet.  One of the elements in the XML
> document is date, which is given in "MM DD
> YYYY h:mm" format (example: "Jul 10 1999 9:10AM").  I
> want the date to be formated w/ the year first (ex:
> "1999-07-10 T9:10 TZD" ).
>
> I'm passing an XML document for the XSL stylesheet to
> use. here is what part of it looks like:
>  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
>      <moreovernews>
>          <article id="_22161643">
>                <url><http://c.moreover.com></url>
>
> <document_url><http://www.mo.com></document_url>
>              <harvest_time>Jul 20 2001
> 2:13PM</harvest_time>
>              <access_registration />
>        </article>
> ... and so on.
>
> the harvest_time is what I want to reformat.  what do
> I need to do inorder to get my stylesheet to reformat
> the date?  I want to use java or java script  (not
> solely XSL).
>
> thanks!
>
> Samina
>
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