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RE: [xsl] Testing / Comparing dates

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I had to do a similar thing in the past (compare today's day with a stored
date) and found http://www.exslt.org/date/index.html. There's a list of
templates there you can use to do date manipulation. The date I used were in
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS format though, although you could easily add on
'T00:00:00' if it needs it.

I had a problem on my live site when I was testing it though and needed to
make a small change to one of the templates. If you find something's not
working you might want to use my altered template (you can find it here
http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200602/msg00544.html)

Hope this helps

Andy
-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Johnson [mailto:Aaron2.Johnson@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 24 March 2006 11:00
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [xsl] Testing / Comparing dates

Hello...

I have some xml:

<submissionDeadline>2006-17-12</submissionDeadline>

I would like to test this element against a parameter containing the current
date so as to display two lists, a list of items on time and a list of items
that are late.

As far as I am aware, the parameter will be the same format.

I thought if the dates were passed as integers [20061712] it may be possible
to do a greater than of less than test.

Can you compare dates as they are in this form, and if so, how?

Thanks for your advice...

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GUI / XSLT development
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University of the West of England
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atg.uwe.ac.uk/aaron

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