Michael wrote
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There are no built-in functions for parsing dates in non-standard formats
(as distinct from formatting them), but you can do it easily enough using
regular expressions and xsl:analyze-string.

The precise solution depends on a precise definition of your input format,
which you haven't given us.

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Well Michael this is a new project I am working on with very fewer samples.
Though I have cross checked that date will not be available in the input
@version attribute so the default 01 will work. So the inputs will be as
shown below (three character Month followed by ". " and four digit year):

<chapter version="Feb. 2000"/> 
<chapter version="Oct. 2006">

And should be outputted as <chapter version="20000201"/> and <chapter
version="20001001"/>

Apart from this I need to ignore attributes values with "Update" (<chapter
version="Dec. 2003 Update">) which I will be able to handle with string
check (contains() function)

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Pankaj




 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pankaj Chaturvedi [mailto:pankaj.chaturvedi@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 16 September 2008 09:49
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Date YYYYMMDD format XSLT 2.0
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have an element which has the date in the below format in an 
> attribute:
> 
> Input
> ================
> <chapter version="Feb. 2000"/>
> 
> The date could be optional can be taken as 01 by default. So the 
> desired output required in "YYYYMMDD format".
> 
> Output Required
> ================
> <chapter version="20000201"/>
> 
> 
> I've been going thru the Michael Kay's book and found it has an 
> example which does the trick vice versa. I mean YYYYMMDD to 01 Feb 
> 2000 for instance.
> 
> I am using the  XSLT 2.0 and thinking of using translate() functions 
> (for
> months) to get this done. Is there any better way to achieve this? Any 
> suggestions will be highly appreciated.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Pankaj Chaturvedi
> 
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