>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.
>

Maybe you could use
http://xsltsl.sourceforge.net/date-time.html#template.dt:calculate-julian-day
It takes the three parameters day, month and year and returns the Julian Day
as a decimal number which you could use to calculate
the difference between to dates.

Rudolf