Hello all,

in my xslt i would like to insert a datestamp tag
eg: <CreationDate>25/10/2008</CreationDate>
The way i want it, is that the date is put in it automatically when the xml is transformed.
Is this possible ?

Greetings to all

In XSLT 2.0 use the current-date() function (and format-date(), if you want it in dd/mm/yyyy format).

In XSLT 1.0 you'll have to pass the current date in as a stylesheet parameter from the calling application, or get it using an extension function call.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Thanks,
But how do i call this function within my xslt?

These functions are just like count(), sum(), or substring() - you can use them within any XPath expression, for example the expression in

<xsl:value-of select="EXPR"/>

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Ok,
when i try this <xsl:value-of select="current-date()"/> XMLspy tells me "XSL transformation failed due to following error:

'current-date' is not a valid XSLT or XPath function.

-->current-date()<-- "
How can i solve this ?

Thanks,

As I said, it's an XSLT 2.0 function. Use a version of XML Spy that supports XSLT 2.0, and make sure that XSLT 2.0 is enabled.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Ok, so far so good.
xslt 2.0 enabled and working

for the moment i have <xsl:value-of select="current-date()"/>
which returns me 2008-07-11+02:00.
how do i use the function format-date to get 11-07-2008.
i already tried to do like this
<xsl:value-of-select="format-date(current-date(),'DD-MM-YYYY')/>
but that gives me an error.

Any pointers ?

http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#function-format-date

I think it should be something like this:

<xsl:value-of-select="format-date(current-date(),'[D]-[M]-[Y]')/>

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

YES YES,

That did it.

I was already looking at another possibility, namely define the current date as a variable and then use the concat and substring functions.
But when i did that i got the error that the variable i made was of type date and not of type string.
i declared my var like this
<xsl:variable name="CD" select="current-date()"/>
is there a simple way to say to xml that i want to use my variable as a string
(i already tried to this <xsl:variable name="CD" select="current-date()" as="string"/>
but that didn't work either :) )
Never the less, many thanks for your help...
V.

'string' isn't a data type, however 'xs:string' probably is (provided 'xs' has been defined as the prefix to the XML Schema namespace.

Alternatively you can just use the string() function to try to convert anything to a string. e.g. select="string(current-date())"

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/