Hi,
I'm quite new to the xsl mailing list so I have no idea if
this problem
occurred already and I was unable to find the solution on the web.
My problem is that I receive for example a date in a
concatenated format:
Ex: 20041207
And I have to retrieve it in a readable format through my xslt-fo
transformation.
Ex. 12 July 2004
I tried using the substring attribute for that, but I don't have any
reference character to look at so it doesn't work. Is there a
function
which parses strings or numbers after a certain amount of characters
directly?
Substring function <http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#function-substring>.
concat(substring(., 5, 2), ' ',
substring('JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec', substring(., 7, 2) * 3 - 2,
3), ' ', substring(., 1, 4))
will give you "12 Jul 2004", but for complete month names
concat(substring(., 5, 2), ' ', document('')/*/x:months/month[position() =
substring(current(), 7, 2)], ' ', substring(., 1, 4))
with a top level element
<x:months>
<month>January</month>
<month>February</month>
<month>March</month>
...
</x:months>
Cheers,
Jarno - Delerium: After All (Svenson & Gielen Remix)