I think that's what I missed: I didn't realize you could do arithmetic
that directly.

I'll try it.

Cheers,

Eliot
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On 10/6/16, 12:24 PM, "Jirka Kosek jirka@xxxxxxxx"
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Thu, Oct 6, 2016, at 11:40, Eliot Kimber ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> I'm using XSLT to extract timing information from logs in order to
>> determine the duration of actions. Each log item has a time stamp in the
>> usual format (2016-10-05T15:52:17.525:+0200).
>
>And why are you simply not just subtracting two dateTimes, something
>like:
>
>xs:dateTime("2015-01-01T12:00:00Z") -
>xs:dateTime("2014-07-10T12:00:00Z")
>
>This will give you back duration. Or perhaps I have misunderstood...
>
>Jirka
>
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