On Sep 21, 2004, at 4:48 AM, Michael Kay wrote:
You seem to be asking how to divide the code you need to write between
two templates/functions, when both options you present are perfectly
viable.
I guess I wanted to know if I was headed down the right road, and you
seem to be saying "maybe."
I guess my question, given what I want to do, is how should I construct
the function; as a single function -- let's call it
bib:format-month-day -- that when called takes any
YYYY/YYYY-MM/YYYY-MM-DD string and returns the formatted date (with
parameter for whether months are rendered as full or abbreviated)?
That's where I was headed. But if that's sensible, I'm not sure how to
actually code it; .e.g. what goes inside the "when" below:
<xsl:when test="$date castable as xs:gYearMonth">
...
</xsl:when>
Or, more specifically, how do I take the statement
"xs:date(concat($date, '-01'))" and then use format-date on it?
Bruce