While everyone is either sleeping (I am in Tokyo) or just simply
enjoying their weekend, I have still been googling around and looking in
the archives to solve my selection-by-date problem. I may have found a couple
of clues under the topic
'compare dates.' First, I have properly converted all my dates to ISO
8601 format (i.e. 2003-07-10) and have added, in my attempt, this sort of
solution, but am still apparently missing something
<xsl:variable name="entrydate" select="hbuddhism/entry/dateofentry"/>
<xsl:variable name="thismonth" select="20030601"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:text>From: Charles Muller
Subject: NEW SUBSCRIBERS> , 2003
</xsl:text>
<xsl:if test="translate($entrydate, '-', '') < $thismonth">
<xsl:for-each select="hbuddhism/entry">
<xsl:sort select="lastname"/>
<xsl:value-of select="position()"/>
<xsl:text>. </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="firstname"/>
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="lastname"/>
<xsl:text>, </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="affiliation"/>
<xsl:text>. Area: </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="area"/>
<xsl:text>. Topic(s): </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="topic"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
</xsl:for-each>
Chuck
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Charles Muller <acmuller(_at_)gol(_dot_)com>
Faculty of Humanities, Toyo Gakuen University
Digital Dictionary of Buddhism and CJKV-English Dictionary
[http://www.acmuller.net]
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