Calling exslt date function

Well,

I got a plain xml file of events that needs to be transformed to html
via an xsl stylesheet. The transformation should only include events
with a begin date equal to or greater than the current date (system
date), all past events in the xml file are ignored. We upload a fresh
xml file once per month or so.

Our server runs msxml4 and I got the exslt date functions installed.
Somehow, I cannot figure how to get the dynamic, current date to work in
my stylesheet. I get no error message, just no events and no current
date value.... It works fine when I use the enterdate variable instead.

The xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<dataroot xmlns:od="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:officedata">
<tblCurrentEvents>
<EventID>1</EventID>
<EventName>The Financial Cruncher Demo</EventName>
<EventDescription>Two hour demo of the new features in FC
4.2.</EventDescription>
<EventType>Demo</EventType>
<EventAudience>For current users of FC only.</EventAudience>
<EventBeginDate>2003-06-04T00:00:00</EventBeginDate>
<EventEndDate>2003-06-04T00:00:00</EventEndDate>
<EventBeginTime>09:30 AM</EventBeginTime>
<EventEndTime>11:30 AM</EventEndTime>
<FeeStatus>FREE</FeeStatus>
<Fee>0</Fee>
<Discount>10% for each additional attendee per organization.</Discount>
<EventLocation>San Francisco Training Center</EventLocation>
<EventStatus>open</EventStatus>
<EventSchedule>recurring-monthly</EventSchedule>
<EventRegistration>Event registration required.</EventRegistration>
</tblCurrentEvents>
<tblCurrentEvents>
.
.
.

The xsl:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
        xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
        xmlns:date="http://exslt.org/dates-and-times";   
    extension-element-prefixes="date">
    <xsl:import href="functions\date\date.date.template.xsl" />
    
    <xsl:variable name="enterdate" select="'2003-08-01T00:00:00Z'"/>
<!-- just in case -->
    
    <xsl:variable name="currentdate">
      <xsl:call-template name="date:date">
      <xsl:with-param name="date-time" select="." />
      </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:variable>
    
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:for-each select="//tblCurrentEvents">
            <xsl:variable name="begindate" select="EventBeginDate" />
            <xsl:variable name="showdateBegin" select="EventBeginDate"/>
            <xsl:variable name="showdateEnd" select="EventEndDate"/>
            <xsl:variable name="YearBegin"
select="substring-before($showdateBegin, '-')" />
            <xsl:variable name="MonthBegin"
select="substring($showdateBegin, 6, 2)" />
            <xsl:variable name="DayBegin"
select="substring($showdateBegin, 9, 2)" />
            <xsl:variable name="YearEnd"
select="substring-before($showdateEnd, '-')" />
            <xsl:variable name="MonthEnd"
select="substring($showdateEnd, 6, 2)" />
            <xsl:variable name="DayEnd" select="substring($showdateEnd,
9, 2)" />
            <xsl:choose>
            <xsl:when test="translate(substring-before($begindate, 'T'),
'-', '') &gt;= translate(substring-before($currentdate, 'T'), '-', '')">
                <p align="left" class="body">
                    <div align="left">
                        <table border="0" cellpadding="0"
style="border-collapse: collapse" width="440" cellspacing="2">
                            <tr>
                                <td width="10%" valign="top">Title:</td>
                                <td width="60%"
valign="top"><b><xsl:value-of select="EventName"/></b></td>
                                <td width="15%"
valign="top"><xsl:text>Event ID: </xsl:text></td>
                                <td width="15%"
valign="top"><xsl:value-of select="EventID"/></td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr>
                                <td valign="top">Date(s):</td>
                                <td colspan="3"
valign="top"><xsl:value-of
select="$MonthBegin"/><xsl:text>/</xsl:text><xsl:value-of
select="$DayBegin"/><xsl:text>/</xsl:text><xsl:value-of
select="$YearBegin"/><xsl:text> to </xsl:text><xsl:value-of
select="$MonthEnd"/><xsl:text>/</xsl:text><xsl:value-of
select="$DayEnd"/><xsl:text>/</xsl:text><xsl:value-of
select="$YearEnd"/></td>
                            </tr>
.
.
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Regards,

Tom

**************************************************************
Tom Froehlich, CFRE
Fundraising Consultant
Armanino McKenna LLP
(925) 790-2600
tom(_at_)amllp(_dot_)com

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