XSLT 2.0 allows you to do a date difference: but first you need to convert
the dates into ISO format - which is easy enough using the XPath 2.0
tokenize() function.

If you can't use XSLT 2.0 you could look to see if there's anything at
www.exslt.org

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com 



> -----Original Message-----
> From: thomas.maciejewski@xxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:thomas.maciejewski@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 19 December 2005 17:54
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Date Difference
> 
> Is there an easy way to do a date difference in XSLT.
> 
> I basically have two strings :   "9/11/2004"  and "10/25/2005"
> and would like to produce the number of days between the two.
> 
> If that is too difficult it would be OK for me to know if one 
> is equal to
> the other ... or maybe if one is equal to, less than or 
> greater than the
> other.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Tom Maciejewski
> 
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