thanks very much you saved my life. name can also be used for XSLT 1.0 right? I am trying it now.

Your attitude determines your altitude

The last question. How can I show the value of a param element(I have only used variable since now and with <xsl:value of select ="elementname"/> I had no chance.I have no choice to use document() function in XSLT 1.0 under .NET I am getting en error message like

Execution of the 'document()' function was prohibited. Use the XsltSettings.EnableDocumentFunction property to enable it

Your attitude determines your altitude

i think what you are after is;

<xsl:template match="whatever">
 <xsl:param name="elementname">


<xsl:value-of select="$elementname" />



For this to work you must pass the 'elementname' parameter to the template when you call it like joefawcett stated

Hope that helps and i understood what you were after

/Matt

I made a silly mistake I have forgotten to reference it fro call-template. Ok my problem has been solved.

One little point: instead of

<xsl:variable name="messageDate">
            <xsl:value-of select="./messagedate"/>
        </xsl:variable>

you should write

<xsl:variable name="messageDate" select="./messagedate"/>

It's one line of code instead of three so it's more readable, and it's also more efficent because it doesn't involve creating a result tree fragment.


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

1. Change your existing template to:

<xsl:template match="messagedate">
  <xsl:call-template name="check-date">
        <xsl:with-param name="date" select="./messagedate"/>
  </xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>

2. Write the named template:

<xsl:template name="check-date">
  <xsl:param name="date"/>
  <xsl:variable name="cc" select="substring($date,1,2)"/>

etc: as your existing code, but changing $messageDate to $date.

3. "I have to make this for all elements like messagedate" - call the named template for other date elements in the same way as it is called above for messagedate.

4. "it should also give the attribute name as the element name in which I have to use it." - I don't understand this part of your question.

Really, you should be checking leap years. That means you are better off using a standard library routine rather than coding this yourself. If you can, move to XSLT 2.0 and use "castable as xs:date".




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