>You are correct, 1.0 does not have analyze-string. No regular
>expression capability iun 1.0 at all. You can, however, parse on the
>space that is between the month name and the year.

Yeah that's the problem. I started with 1.0 but jumped to 2.0 immediately 
because of more functionality. Unfortunately I need to work in 1.0 for 
this project (customer boundation)..... time to revisit Dr. Kay's Wrox - 
XSLT programmers reference once again.

Thanks everybody for ideas.

Pankaj