Re: date translation

[Joerg Heinicke]

Only a comment:

Using

<xsl:param name="any">
<xsl:value-of select="anyExpression"/>
</xsl:param>

is mostly not the optimum. It will create a Result Tree Fragment, where it is not needed. Using

<xsl:param name="any" select="anyExpression"/>

is shorter and is of a "normal" data type like node set, string or number. While working with strings it's only a question of conversions the processor has to do. But when working with node sets it can be really a problem:

<xsl:param name="any">
<xsl:copy-of select="anyExpressionThatReturnsANodeset"/>
</xsl:param>

You can't operate on $any like on a node set. Only string operatrions are allowed. So for example "$any/path/to/a/node" is not possible.

Another problem:

<xsl:variable name="emptyString" select="''"/>

<xsl:variable name="emptyRTF">
<xsl:value-of select="''"/>
</xsl:variable>

<xsl:if test="$emptyString"/> ==> false
<xsl:if test="$emptyRTF"/> ==> true

You can't test that simply on the emptyness of a RTF, because it returns always true. You must explicitely convert it into a string via test="string($emptyRTF)".

http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Result-Tree-Fragments

So in general it's better to avoid RTFs.

Regards,

Joerg

Scherler, Thorsten wrote:

Hello group,

if anybody need a date translation, here it is:

e.g. test.html?date=29.1.2003 (like we write in Germany) will be 1/29/2003.

<xsl:param name="date"/>
<xsl:param name="GETday"><xsl:value-of select="substring-before($date,'.')"/> </xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="GETmonth_year"><xsl:value-of select="substring-after($date,'.')"/></xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="GETmonth"><xsl:value-of select="substring-before($GETmonth_year,'.')"/> </xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="GETyear"><xsl:value-of select="substring-after($GETmonth_year,'.')"/> </xsl:param>
...
<xsl:value-of select="$GETmonth"/>/<xsl:value-of select="$GETday"/>/<xsl:value-of select="$GETyear"/>

King regards

Mit freundlichem Gruss,

Thorsten Scherler

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