How do we test whether a date is within 180 days from today in xslt in datapower

Question

I am writing an xslt for datapower and in that I am getting a date(Payment Date).I have to check whether that date(Paymentt Date) is within 180 days of current date

Answer 1

IBM Datapower provides extension to existing EXSLT function. There is a function called 'difference' with following signature.

difference() Returns the duration between the first date and the second date. Syntax date:difference(start-dateTime, end-dateTime)

You can utilize this function to find out the date-difference. For more information about extension function available in datapower see below link. Go to Chapter 5 and look for functions for manipulating 'date time'.

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wsdatap/v3r8m1/topic/xm70/ExtensionFunctions.pdf

-Ajitabh