Useful Tip of the day #1

Here's how to generate W3C time format from XSL using an Java enabled XSLT parser.

Step 1. create four variables


<xsl:variable name="s1" select="java:format(java:java.text.SimpleDateFormat.new('yyyy-MM-dd'),java:java.util.Date.new())"/>

<xsl:variable name="s2" select="java:format(java:java.text.SimpleDateFormat.new('HH:mm:ssZ'), java:java.util.Date.new())" />

<xsl:variable name="s3" select="substring($s2,1,11)" />

<xsl:variable name="s4" select="substring($s2,12)" />



Step 2. Concatenate variables s1,s3,s4 and include a T and a colon (:)

<xsl:value-of select="$s1"/>T<xsl:value-of select="$s3"/>:<xsl:value-of select="$s4"/>


This will yield: 2008-12-04T11:05:35+08:00
Which is kinda like the W3C format without the milliseconds.