Hi,

I'm fairly new to XSLT and I'm trying to find an example on how to use seconds-from-duration. Basically I have a field in one XML document that looks like this :

<preview_start_time>PT0M15S</preview_start_time>

and when I transform it, I want it to come out looking like this:

<preview>65</preview>

... but finding documentation on using seconds-from-duration that is fit for human use is proving to be utterly impossible. Is there a simple way to use this function?

cheers,
Alex

Here's an example:

<preview>
  <xsl:value-of select="seconds-from-duration(xs:dayTimeDuration(preview_start_time))"/>
</preview>

With your example that will give you 15 rather than 65. I don't know where you expect 65 to come from. If you want the total number of seconds (1 min 15 secs = 75 secs), you don't want seconds-from-duration (which will give you 15), you want to do

xs:dayTimeDuration(preview_start_time) idiv xs:dayTimeDuration('PT1S')

Remember that you need an XSLT 2.0 processor and that in the above examples you need to declare the xs namespace.

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

Thanks very much for the helpful response. I'm sure I'll be back once I have a 2.0 processor installed.