There's nothing in the standard.

There's an EXSLT parse-date() function, I believe, but I don't think it's
widely implemented.

In 2.0 you can usually achieve what you need using regular expressions.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nistor Boscan [mailto:nestor.boscan@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 15 September 2005 05:48
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  How to convert from string to date using a
> specific pattern
>
> Hi
>
> Is there an XPath function that converts from a string value
> to a date or
> dateTime value using a specific pattern?
>
> Regards,
>
> Nistor Boscan