Parsing string or numbers after x characters

[Julien Barbin]

Hello

I'm quite new to the fop mailing list so I have no idea if this problem occurred already and I was unable to find solutions on the web.

My problem is that I receive for example a date in a concatenated format:

Ex: 20041207

And I have to retrieve it in a readable format through my xslt-fo transformation.

Ex: 12 July 2004

I tried using substring for that, but I don't have any reference character to look for in order to parse.
Is there a function which parses strings or numbers after a certain amount of characters directly.


Thanks in advance for those which will respond.


Julien