Hi,

Is possible to subtract the end date - start date and get the number of days but without weekends?

So, if I am on Friday and my end date is the following Monday then I should get 1 instead of 3.

<root>
<StartDate>9 July 2012</StartDate>
<StartDate>24 September 2016</StartDate>
<root>

Cheers

C



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First write a function to compute day of week dow() for a given date: subtract a well-known Sunday from the date, divide by the duration PT1D, then take the result modulo 7.

Now subtract the two dates, divide by the duration PT1D to get an integer number of days D, and then take W= (D div 7)*5 to get the number of weekdays in whole weeks. Then work out how many extra days you need to add based on the day-of-week of the two days: if you know that both are weekdays, this is dow(END)-dow(START) if positive, otherwise 7-(dow(START)-dow(END)).

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

Hi Michael,

Thanks very much for your reply.

I am trying to learn now to do this in XSLT 1.0. I know your explanation was very thorough.

Could you please kindly show us how to create this method. I really would like to learn how to do this but I guess I am not a guru like you guys (i.e. not as clever as you guys).

Cheers

C

Sorry, it's years since I've written any XSLT 1.0 code, thank goodness. If you're really unable to move to 2.0, you'll have to look at what the EXSLT date-and-time library offers (assuming its available to you). If it's not available, you'll have to drop into some other language.

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

Thanks for letting me know it is not possible to achieve this in version 1 for it is too hard.