HI All,
I'm new to xslt and xml and just trying to get my head around things. Is there a way to modify time from and xml doc with xslt? The time in my xml doc is GMT and I would like it to reflect my time zone(AST). Below is the xslt code... I was trying to import another date-time template but it didn't work. Can I use Javascript or VBscript to format the time? Or do I have to use a template?

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:date="http://exslt.org/dates-and-times" extension-element-prefixes="date">
<xsl:import href="date.add.template.xsl" />

<xsl:template match="/">


<table width='171' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' bgcolor='#CCCCCC'>

   <tr align='center' valign='top'>
          <td colspan='2'><xsl:value-of select="rpuData/essIdent/essIdentification/essSiteDescription"/></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td colspan='2'><img src='../images/5x100transspacer.gif' width='100' height='2' /></td>
        </tr>
        <tr align='center' valign='top'>
          <td colspan='2'><img src='../images/dateandtimepoll.gif' width='165' height='12' /></td>
        </tr>
        <tr align='center' valign='top'>
          <td colspan='2'>
          <xsl:call-template name="date:add">
   <xsl:with-param name="date-time" select="rpuData/essIdent/@TimeStamp" />
   <xsl:with-param name="duration" select="-P4" />
</xsl:call-template>AST</td>
        </tr> <tr align='center'>
          <td colspan='2'><img src='../images/5x100transspacer.gif' width='100' height='2' /></td>
        </tr>
         </tr>
      </table>



    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>



Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

You're thinking on the right lines: you either want to do this with XSLT 2.0, or failing that, with the EXSLT library of extensions for XSLT 1.0.

You say it didn't work. Without more information, no one can tell you why it didn't work. What did you do, and how did it fail?

I guess that by -P4 you mean a timezone four hours before GMT (I should know what AST is but I don't...). The correct representation of this duration is "-PT4H".

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

I'm not sure how the code fails... the page displays everything except the time. There is no error message and the time cell is blank.
It seems to just ignore the code and finish displaying the page.... there is nothing in the source.

AST stands for Atlantic Standard time.

If you had to modify time in a XML doc with XSL what would you do?

>I'm not sure how the code fails... the page displays everything except the time. There is no error message and the time cell is blank.

That's useful information, it means you don't have any nasty installation problems. The explanation is probably that you are calling the EXSLT code with incorrect parameters, e.g. the path expression in the parameter returns nothing. Just debug the EXSLT template as if it were your own code.

>If you had to modify time in a XML doc with XSL what would you do?

I would use XSLT 2.0.



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