But never reinvent the wheel if someone has already started it rolling:

http://xsltsl.sourceforge.net/date-time.html


Chuck White
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Author, Mastering XSLT, Sybex Books
Co-Author, Mastering XML Premium Edition, Sybex Books
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-xsl-
> list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Emmanuel Oviosa
> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 5:10 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE:  Date Conversion
> 
> Thanks David.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 23 October 2002 12:22
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  Date Conversion
> 
> 
> 
> > I need to know how to convert an attribute nodeTypeValue to a DATE
or
> TIME,
> > since it is a STRING. In XML and XSLT.
> 
> XPath (1) does not have specific types for dates and times. You can
use
> string functions such as substring and substring-before to convert
> between formats such as "jan 1st 2002" and "2002-01-01" but the
details
> depend on exactly what your input format and desired output formats
are.
> 
> David
> 
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