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Posted: **Fri Sep 26, 2008 11:27 am**

This is probably the worse thing I have ever attempted in xsl

formating a date value that can be any of the following:

MM/DD/YY
M/DD/YY
M/D/YY
MM/D/YY

changing it into YY-MM-DD

Any guidance?

Posted: **Fri Sep 26, 2008 5:37 pm**

Hi,

Let's suppose you have

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<dates>

    <date>11/12/03</date>

    <date>1/12/03</date>

    <date>1/2/03</date>

    <date>11/2/03</date>

</dates>

and you want as output

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<dates>

    <date>03-11-12</date>

    <date>03-01-12</date>

    <date>03-01-02</date>

    <date>03-11-02</date>

</dates>

Then, the following stylesheet will do that. It gets the year, month and day with substring before and after functions and then adds a leading zero if necessary:

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<?xml version="1.1" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0">

    <xsl:template match="dates">

        <dates><xsl:apply-templates/></dates>    

    </xsl:template> 

    <xsl:template match="date">

        <xsl:variable name="year" select="substring-after(substring-after(., '/'),'/')"/>

        <xsl:variable name="month" select="substring-before(.,'/')"/>

        <xsl:variable name="day" select="substring-before(substring-after(., '/'),'/')"/>

        <date>

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

            <xsl:text>-</xsl:text>

            <xsl:if test="string-length($month)=1">0</xsl:if>

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

            <xsl:text>-</xsl:text>

            <xsl:if test="string-length($day)=1">0</xsl:if>

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

        </date>

    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Best Regards,
George

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