Read it in the calling application and pass it to the stylesheet as a
parameter.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blue Gecko [mailto:bluegecko@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 04 October 2005 14:55
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Modification date/time of an XML file during 
> its XSLT-processing - how to get?
> 
> Hello folks,
> 
> I need to insert the modification date/time (timestamp) of a 
> source XML 
> file into the transformed contents, just like this:
> 
> <!-- XSLT output.
> "lastModification" attribute comes from the timestamp of my 
> source XML file.
> -->
> <foo lastModification="2005-10-04T13:20:00.000+01:00">
> <items/>
> </foo>
> 
> could anyone suggest me how to obtain such timestamp in the 
> context of 
> an XSLT processing?
> 
> Many thanks