Format xml using xslt and regex

t_herbert47 · January 20th, 2010, 02:27 PM

You have gone off the question, I didn't ask for that.

samjudson · January 20th, 2010, 02:47 PM

Firstly the error: You can't give a variable a select attribute and have content inside it.

Secondly: you appear to be trying to use some regex command, but don't actually use it. Are you missing a <xsl:analyze-string> instruction somewhere?

The reason it is outputing just "--" is because the variables $year, $month and $day are all empty. They are all empty because regex-group() function is returning nothing, because it is meant to be used inside <xsl:analyse-string>.

t_herbert47 · January 20th, 2010, 02:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by samjudson

Firstly the error: You can't give a variable a select attribute and have content inside it.

Secondly: you appear to be trying to use some regex command, but don't actually use it. Are you missing a <xsl:analyze-string> instruction somewhere?

The reason it is outputing just "--" is because the variables $year, $month and $day are all empty. They are all empty because regex-group() function is returning nothing, because it is meant to be used inside <xsl:analyse-string>.

I have tried with <xsl:analyze-string> but still there is nothing as result. I have been dealing with this for 3 days and nothing.

samjudson · January 21st, 2010, 05:18 AM

Sorry, you've deleted the post I was replying to so now I don't know what you stuck on.

Have you tried any of the solutions we tried with Christian? Also, are you using XSLT 2.0? Because if you're not then xsl:analyse-string wont work, and you'll have to use substring-after() and substring-before() to get the parts of the dates.

In fact if you are using XSLT 1.0 then format-date doesn't exist in the core language. You might find your processor supports some of the extension methods, such as the EXSLT functions which may help.

t_herbert47 · January 24th, 2010, 03:35 PM

I was trying to convert a iso date to the output which I asked before but it is not working. How can I do it?

mhkay · January 24th, 2010, 07:48 PM

Your original message gave example dates like 12-3-2001. But your regex will only match if the day and month are exactly two digits.