Convert date from DD-MMM-YYYY to YYYYMMDD format in xslt 1.0

Question

How we can convert the date format from DD-MMM-YYYY to YYYY-MM-DD in XSLT.

10-JAN-2013 TO 20130110

in XSLT 1.0

Answer 1

This is very straightforward with an xsl:choose element, and doesn't require any extensions.

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Applied to this XML data

  10-JAN-2013
  04-JUL-1776
  31-DEC-1999

Produces this output

   20130110
   17760704
   19991231