The design pattern you mention would suggest that you have control
over the data format coming into your process, I cant say that would
be true in all cases. And since presumably we are translating the
o/p XML of another process, you would have to convert the data to a
format that is required by your o/p in your stylesheet, unless you
have a better suggestion for this.

Regards

AmitGhaste
314.359.1851

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	G. Ken Holman [mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent:	Wednesday, March 03, 2004 10:51 AM
To:	xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:	Re:  Date formatting in XSLT ?

At 2004-03-03 18:29 +0200, Kaarle Kaila wrote:
>I looked at Michael Kay's book and could not find anything about
Date
>formatting. My specific question is that is it possible to convert
a
>java-type time in milliseconds since 1970?  to some human readable
Date/Time
>format?

Not in XSLT 1.0 ... the typical design pattern is to do such
conversion 
outside of XSLT and supply the converted value as a text string to a

top-level parameter in the stylesheet.

I hope this helps.

......................... Ken


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