Hi,
I have a date in the format mm/dd/yy
and i need this transformed to yyyymmdd

Can somebody suggest the method in xslt?
Thanks

yes it is possbile. For that you have to write java extensions for xslt like
xmlns:java="XSLT.Extension.MyDateFormat"

here the java code


package XSLT.Extension;

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;



public class MyDateFormat {


    public static String getDateFormat(String dt)
    {
        Date now = new Date();
        String outStr="";
        try
          {
                //===== converting String to date=========
                  String DATE_FORMAT = "dd/MM/yyyy";
                  SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT);


                  Date d=null;

                  d=sdf.parse(dt);

                 //============ converting to yyyyMMdd format========
                SimpleDateFormat sdf1 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");
                outStr=sdf1.format(d);


          }
          catch(Exception e)
          {
              System.out.println("error");
          }



        return outStr;
    }

    public static String getOuts()
    {

        return "TexTech international";
    }
}

compile the java code and put the directory in classpath and
add the xmlns:dt="XSLT.Extension.MyDateFormat" to the XSL file
transform using the Saxon8 processor
you will get the output




<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" xmlns:dt="XSLT.Extension.MyDateFormat">

        <xsl:template match="/">
                    <p>

                            <xsl:value-of select="dt:getDateFormat('30/12/2004')"/>
                    </p>
        </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

You don't need extension functions to handle simple cases, just use something like

concat('20', substring($in, 7,2), '-', substring($in, 1,2), '-', substring($in,4,2))

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