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Pure XSLT Date Formatting

Zone: Extensible Markup Language (XML)

Tags: date, xslt, format

I was wondering if there is a way to format dates with a pure XSLT solution?

Take for example yahoo's rss feed using the date as : Thu, 08 Jan 2004 14:01:20 GMT

I need to change that into something smaller...

If this is possible could you please show examples for serveral differnt formats

ie 1/8/04 01.08.04 Jan 8 2004

Thanks

Sean

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Zone: Web Development

Question Asked By: Keyman

Solution Provided By: Yury_Delendik

Participating Experts: 3

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01.08.2004 at 07:34AM PST, ID: 10072095

Rank: Guru

Yury_Delendik:

<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:variable name="d">Thu, 08 Jan 2004 14:01:20 GMT</xsl:variable>
<xsl:call-template name="format-date"><xsl:with-param name="date" select="$d" /><xsl:with-param name="format" select="1" /></xsl:call-template><xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
<xsl:call-template name="format-date"><xsl:with-param name="date" select="$d" /><xsl:with-param name="format" select="2" /></xsl:call-template><xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
<xsl:call-template name="format-date"><xsl:with-param name="date" select="$d" /><xsl:with-param name="format" select="3" /></xsl:call-template><xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>


<xsl:template name="format-date">
<xsl:param name="date" />
<xsl:param name="format" select="0" />

<xsl:variable name="day" select="substring-before(substring-after($date, ' '), ' ')" />
<xsl:variable name="monthName" select="substring-before(substring-after(substring-after($date, ' '), ' '), ' ')" />
<xsl:variable name="year" select="substring-before(substring-after(substring-after(substring-after($date, ' '), ' '), ' '), ' ')" />

<xsl:variable name="month" select="substring(substring-after('Jan01Feb02Mar03Apr04May05Jun06Jul07Aug08Sep09Oct10Nov11Dec12', $monthName), 1, 2)" />
<xsl:variable name="day2" select="concat(translate(substring($day,1,1), '0', ''), substring($day,2,1))" />
<xsl:variable name="month2" select="concat(translate(substring($month,1,1), '0', ''), substring($month,2,1))" />

<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$format = 1">
<xsl:value-of select="concat($month2, '/', $day2, '/', substring($year, 3))" />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$format = 2">
<xsl:value-of select="concat($month, '.', $day, '.', substring($year, 3))" />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$format = 3">
<xsl:value-of select="concat($monthName, ' ', $day2, ' ', $year)" />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$date" />
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

Accepted Solution

01.08.2004 at 09:03AM PST, ID: 10072961

Keyman:

Thanks works Great!!

Sean

08.31.2005 at 10:41AM PDT, ID: 14795949

ChristinaPupo:

Can you be more specific? I want to do the same thing but am totally new to xml. I want to display the date formatted like Wednesday, August 31, 2005 or just August 31, 2005.

Here is what I have so far:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="iso-8859-1" omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="*">
<table border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr><td valign="top">

<a>
<xsl:attribute name="href">
<xsl:value-of select="*[local-name()='link']"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="target">
<xsl:text>top</xsl:text>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:value-of select="*[local-name()='title']" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
</a>

<xsl:value-of select="*[local-name()='description']" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>...

</td></tr>
</table>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

This works great for diplaying the title and description but I need the date [pubDate] above the title formatted correctly. Don't have a clue how to use the template submitted earlier. Any help is much appreciated.

I am using ASP to call the source file:

Sub getXML(sourceFile)
dim styleFile
dim source, style
styleFile = Server.MapPath("news/news.xsl")

set source = Server.CreateObject("Msxml2.DomDocument")
source.async = false
source.setProperty "ServerHTTPRequest", true
source.load CStr(sourceFile)

set style = Server.CreateObject("Msxml2.DomDocument")
style.async = false
style.load styleFile

source.transformNodeToObject style, Response
set source = nothing
set style = nothing
End Sub

getXML("http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=arizona+real+estate&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt")

Thanks,
Christina

09.06.2005 at 03:20AM PDT, ID: 14827870

webtechy:

Yury,

Your example works great, however, when I try and substitute:

<xsl:variable name="d">Thu, 08 Jan 2004 14:01:20 GMT</xsl:variable>

for

<xsl:variable name="d" select="pubDate"/>

It returns:

Ju//p

I'm sure it's quite simple - just can't figure it out!

Cheers,

Ben.

09.06.2005 at 03:23AM PDT, ID: 14827878

webtechy:

FYI, the code in full is:

----------
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:rss="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" xmlns:atom="http://purl.org/atom/ns#">

<xsl:output method="html" />
<xsl:template match="/">

<xsl:element name="table">
      <xsl:attribute name="class">ms-summarycustombody</xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:attribute name="style">padding-bottom: 5px</xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:attribute name="cellpadding">0</xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:attribute name="cellspacing">0</xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:attribute name="border">0</xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:for-each select="/rss/channel/item[position() <= 10] | /rss/item[position() <= 10] | /rdf:RDF/rss:item[position() <= 10] | /atom:feed/atom:entry[position() <= 10] | /CHANNEL/ITEM[position() <= 10]">
            <xsl:element name="tr">
                  <xsl:element name="td">
                        <xsl:attribute name="style">padding-bottom: 5px</xsl:attribute>
                        <xsl:attribute name="class">ms-vb</xsl:attribute>
                        <xsl:element name="img">
                              <xsl:attribute name="src">/_layouts/images/square.gif</xsl:attribute>
                        </xsl:element>
                        <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
                  </xsl:element>
                  <xsl:element name="td">
                        <xsl:attribute name="style">padding-bottom: 5px</xsl:attribute>
                        <xsl:attribute name="class">ms-vb</xsl:attribute>
                        <xsl:variable name="d" select="pubDate"/>
                        <xsl:call-template name="format-date">
                              <xsl:with-param name="date" select="$d" />
                              <xsl:with-param name="format" select="1" />
                        </xsl:call-template>
                        <xsl:element name="a">
                              <xsl:attribute name="href">
                                    <xsl:value-of select="link | rss:link | atom:link[@rel='alternate']/@href | @HREF" />
                              </xsl:attribute>
                              <xsl:attribute name="title">
                                    <xsl:value-of select="description | rss:description | atom:summary | ABSTRACT" />
                              </xsl:attribute>
                              <xsl:attribute name="onclick">window.open(this.href); return false;</xsl:attribute>
                              <xsl:attribute name="onkeypress">window.open(this.href); return false;</xsl:attribute>
                              <xsl:value-of select="title | rss:title | atom:title | TITLE"/>
                        </xsl:element>
                  </xsl:element>
            </xsl:element>
      </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>


<xsl:template name="format-date">
<xsl:param name="date" />
<xsl:param name="format" select="0" />

<xsl:variable name="day" select="substring-before(substring-after($date, ' '), ' ')" />
<xsl:variable name="monthName" select="substring-before(substring-after(substring-after($date, ' '), ' '), ' ')" />
<xsl:variable name="year" select="substring-before(substring-after(substring-after(substring-after($date, ' '), ' '), ' '), ' ')" />

<xsl:variable name="month" select="substring(substring-after('Jan01Feb02Mar03Apr04May05Jun06Jul07Aug08Sep09Oct10Nov11Dec12', $monthName), 1, 2)" />
<xsl:variable name="day2" select="concat(translate(substring($day,1,1), '0', ''), substring($day,2,1))" />
<xsl:variable name="month2" select="concat(translate(substring($month,1,1), '0', ''), substring($month,2,1))" />

<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$format = 1">
<xsl:value-of select="concat($month2, '/', $day2, '/', substring($year, 3))" />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$format = 2">
<xsl:value-of select="concat($month, '.', $day, '.', substring($year, 3))" />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$format = 3">
<xsl:value-of select="concat($monthName, ' ', $day2, ' ', $year)" />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$date" />
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
----------

09.06.2005 at 05:50AM PDT, ID: 14828570

webtechy:

FYI, found a solution as follows:

----------
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:rss="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" xmlns:atom="http://purl.org/atom/ns#">

<xsl:output method="html" />
<xsl:template match="/">

<xsl:element name="table">
      <xsl:attribute name="class">ms-summarycustombody</xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:attribute name="style">padding-bottom: 5px</xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:attribute name="cellpadding">0</xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:attribute name="cellspacing">0</xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:attribute name="border">0</xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:for-each select="/rss/channel/item[position() <= 10] | /rss/item[position() <= 10] | /rdf:RDF/rss:item[position() <= 10] | /atom:feed/atom:entry[position() <= 10] | /CHANNEL/ITEM[position() <= 10]">
            <xsl:element name="tr">
                  <xsl:element name="td">
                        <xsl:attribute name="style">padding-bottom: 5px</xsl:attribute>
                        <xsl:attribute name="class">ms-vb</xsl:attribute>
                        <xsl:element name="img">
                              <xsl:attribute name="src">/_layouts/images/square.gif</xsl:attribute>
                        </xsl:element>
                        <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
                  </xsl:element>
                  <xsl:element name="td">
                        <xsl:attribute name="style">padding-bottom: 5px</xsl:attribute>
                        <xsl:attribute name="class">ms-vb</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:text>(</xsl:text>
                        <xsl:call-template name="format-date">
                              <xsl:with-param name="date" select="pubDate" />
                              <xsl:with-param name="format" select="1" />
                        </xsl:call-template>
<xsl:text>) </xsl:text>
                        <xsl:element name="a">
                              <xsl:attribute name="href">
                                    <xsl:value-of select="link | rss:link | atom:link[@rel='alternate']/@href | @HREF" />
                              </xsl:attribute>
                              <xsl:attribute name="title">
                                    <xsl:value-of select="description | rss:description | atom:summary | ABSTRACT" />
                              </xsl:attribute>
                              <xsl:attribute name="onclick">window.open(this.href); return false;</xsl:attribute>
                              <xsl:attribute name="onkeypress">window.open(this.href); return false;</xsl:attribute>
                              <xsl:value-of select="title | rss:title | atom:title | TITLE"/>
                        </xsl:element>
                  </xsl:element>
            </xsl:element>
      </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>


<xsl:template name="format-date">
<xsl:param name="date" />
<xsl:param name="format" select="0" />

<xsl:variable name="day" select="substring-before(substring-after($date, ' '), ' ')" />
<xsl:variable name="monthName" select="substring-before(substring-after(substring-after($date, ' '), ' '), ' ')" />
<xsl:variable name="year" select="substring-before(substring-after(substring-after(substring-after($date, ' '), ' '), ' '), ' ')" />

<xsl:variable name="month" select="substring(substring-after('Jan01Feb02Mar03Apr04May05Jun06Jul07Aug08Sep09Oct10Nov11Dec12', $monthName), 1, 2)" />
<xsl:variable name="day2" select="concat(translate(substring($day,1,1), '0', ''), substring($day,2,1))" />
<xsl:variable name="month2" select="concat(translate(substring($month,1,1), '0', ''), substring($month,2,1))" />

<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$format = 1">
<xsl:value-of select="concat($month2, '/', $day2, '/', substring($year, 3))" />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$format = 2">
<xsl:value-of select="concat($month, '.', $day, '.', substring($year, 3))" />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$format = 3">
<xsl:value-of select="concat($monthName, ' ', $day2, ' ', $year)" />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$format = 4">
<xsl:value-of select="concat($day2, '/', $month2, '/', substring($year, 3))" />
</xsl:when>

<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$date" />
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
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