Convert 31-DEC-2016 to 2016-12-31

Question

I want to convert the 31-DEC-2016 i.e., dd-mmm-yyyy to yyyy-mm-dd in the XSLT using format-dateTime function but the output is not as expected.Can anyone help on this?

Answer 1

You cannot use the format-dateTime() function on a string that is not a valid dateTime (or the format-date() function on a string that is not a valid date). You need to process the string using string functions first.

Try:

Calling this template with a datestring parameter of "31-DEC-2016" will return a value of "2016-12-31".

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Example of call (mostly guessing, not having seen the input):

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In XSLT 2.0, you can define a function instead of a named template. The following stylesheet:

XSLT 2.0

will return:

2016-03-09