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can i change dateformat in XSL

I have an XSL stylesheet which gets its data from an XML document.

One of the fields to be displayed is a date field. The xml data has the date in format dd-mm-yyyy. Can I do anything so that the XSL changes this format to dd-MMM-yy ?

So 01-01-2001 should display as 01-Jan-2001 !

Thanx!
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I have been experimenting and yes, djokov, what you suggested will work fine.

Nevertheless, I was wondering if I could simplify this !

I tried to write a function which will do this using

<xsl:script><![CDATA[ tags. When I put this into my XSL, I get returned nothing !!! It doesnt matter wha I put in the function.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:rs="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:rowset" xmlns:z="#RowsetSchema"
version="1.0">

<xsl:script language="VBScript"><![CDATA[
function GetMeThis()
     GetMeThis = "date"
end function
]]>
</xsl:script>

<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:eval>GetMeThis()</xsl:eval>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

I have ripped off the other xsl tags as of now but no matter what ...
This gets me nothing !!!
djokov,

I want to leave this Q open for a lil more time. I would like to see some more suggestions, else I will use what you have suggested and award you the points.
Yes, ok, but if it should be plain xslt, i don't think there is other way... however, let us see what other guys will offer.

cheers.
enkay,

If you're going to need to change the format in the future, or maybe have different formats for different people, you might consider using extensions (this is a string replace example, but you'll get the idea):

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                   xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/xslt/java"
                   exclude-result-prefixes="java"
               version="1.0">
    <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
    <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
    <xsl:template match="/">
         <xsl:apply-templates/>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="test[@att]">
         <xsl:variable name="str" select="@att"/>
         <xsl:variable name="find" select="_string_"/>
         <xsl:variable name="sub" select="_other_"/>
         <xsl:variable name="repl" select="java:Replacer.replace(string($str), string($find), string($sub))"/>
         <test>
              <xsl:attribute name="att"><xsl:value-of select="$repl"/></xsl:attribute>
         </test>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

And then you'd write a class Replacer with a method:

public static String replace(String, String, String)

that does whatever you like (in your case date formatting).

Regards,
WMB
Thank you everyone !