Hi Roger,
Functions and constructs in XSLT and XPath are stable (barring a few
exceptions). Calling a function with the same argument twice will yield the
same result for both calls. The functions current-time(), current-dateTime()
and current-date() will therefor always return the same time (with a slight
caveat for static and dynamic evaluation phases, but let's not digress).
The only way out here is extension functions, or a trick with XSLT 3.0 using
streaming, because the xsl:stream instruction is deemed non-stable (i.e., it
will re-invoke the url at the href argument each time it is called). Whether an
extension function helps depends whether your processor allows non-stable
extension functions, but I believe most, if not all, processors do.
Here's a (workable) trick that works with all XSLT 3.0 processors, however you
might want to choose a local resource instead that returns the current
date-time, for performance reasons.
<xsl:mode streamable="yes" name="time" on-no-match="shallow-skip" >
<!-- may need an actual argument to force re-evaluation -->
<xsl:function name="my:current-time">
<xsl:stream href="http://time.is";>
<xsl:apply-templates mode="time" />
</xsl:stream>
</xsl:function>
<!-- match the element that contains the time -->
<xsl:template match="div[@id = 'twd']">
<xsl:value-of select="." />
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:value-of select="my:current-time()" />
... do the processing ...
<xsl:value-of select="my:current-time()" />
</xsl:template>
Note: the page http://time.is currently does not deliver proper XML (and on my
search for a time server that did deliver proper XML or even proper XHTML I did
not find any). If you can convince your processor not to cache the result of
unparsed-text, you can use the following with the same server as a workaround
(ugly, but it shows the principle):
<xsl:value-of select="replace(unparsed-text('http://time.is/'),
'.+twd">([^<]+).*', '$1', 'sm')" />
Cheers,
Abel
-----Original Message-----
From: Costello, Roger L. costello(_at_)mitre(_dot_)org [mailto:xsl-list-
service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com]
Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2014 11:47 AM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] How to output the start execution time and the end execution
time?
Hi Folks,
I would like to:
1. Output the time that my XSLT program starts processing 2. Do the
processing 3. Output the time that my XSLT program finishes processing
This doesn't work:
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:value-of select="current-time()" />
... do the processing ...
<xsl:value-of select="current-time()" />
</xsl:template>
What is the correct way to accomplish this?
/Roger
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