> From: Challa, Harsha [mailto:hchalla@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 4:22 PM
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Concat function - URGENT pls
> 
> I give up 
> 
> I am having trouble using the concat function 
> I am just forming a date time element by selecting values of 
> date and time
> elements
> I am getting all sorts of errors, syntactical 
> 
> Source
> <PODDate>3/10/2003</PODDate>
> <PODTime>9:14</PODTime>
> 
> Needs to be transformed to
> <MovementDateTime>03/17/2003@09:14:0</MovementDateTime>
> 
> 
> 
> <xsl:element name="MovementDateTime">
> 							<xsl:value-of
> select= "concat(
> 					
> 						&lt;value-of
> select="//MovementDate">&lt;xsl:value-of>,'@', &lt;value-of
> select="//MovementTime"></xsl:value-of>,':00')"/>
> 	
> </xsl:element>

First, keep in mind that concat() and other XPath/XSLT functions accept
expressions, not literal XSLT elements, as arguments.

Second, there appears to be a mismatch in your expressions: you look for
//MovementDate, but your source says <PODDate>.  This should do it:

<MovementDateTime><xsl:value-of
select="concat(//PODDate,'@',//PODTime,':00')"/></MovementDateTime>

> BTW, Can I concat any number of strings with the concat function?

Yes.

hth,
b.

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