hi all,
I am a newbie to xslt. I need to validate if the user entered valid date, in a format like 'mm/dd/yyyy'. can anybody show me how please?

Thx,
R

XSLT 2.0 will process dates in international format (yyyy-mm-dd) using the expression ($x castable as xs:date) but you will first have to convert from the local format used in the USA, which you could do using substring operations.

In 1.0, take a look at the date-handling functions defined in www.exslt.org.

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