See pages 340 and 344 of my "Practical Transformation Using XSLT and
XPath" book for a bit more detail.
For those without a copy, I've made it available from our web site on
a "Try and buy" premise: you download the complete book and if you
like it I ask you to be honest about it and pay for it ... if you
don't like it, then please delete it.
The book is a superset of the material I use in the instructor-led
class (not including hands-on exercises) that I have the privilege of
teaching around the world. If you have questions about the book or
the teaching, please ask directly and not on the list.
. . . . . . . . . . . Ken
At 2012-05-21 12:28 -0400, G. Ken Holman wrote:
At 2012-05-21 17:06 +0100, Florent Georges wrote:
As part of sending an OAuth request to connect to Twitter, I have to
get a timestamp, as the number of seconds elapsed from Jan 01, 1970
(AKA the UNIX epoch). The simplest solution I could come with is the
following:
Remember you can do arithmetic with durations. I think this is even simpler:
T:\ftemp>xslt2 florent.xsl florent.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>1337617644.811
T:\ftemp>xslt2 florent.xsl florent.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>1337617649.455
T:\ftemp>type florent.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:my="urn:X-florent"
version="2.0">
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:value-of select="my:current-timestamp()"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:function name="my:current-timestamp" as="xs:string">
<!-- the UNIX epoch -->
<xsl:variable name="epoch"
select="xs:dateTime('1970-01-01T00:00:00Z')"/>
<!-- time since then -->
<xsl:variable name="diff" select="current-dateTime() - $epoch"/>
<!-- number of seconds -->
<xsl:sequence select="string($diff div xs:dayTimeDuration('PT1S'))"/>
</xsl:function>
</xsl:stylesheet>
T:\ftemp>
I hope this helps.
. . . . . . . . Ken
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