Convert dateTime to unix epoch in xslt

Question

I have a dateTime variable, and I want to convert it to a decimal value of epoch. How can this be done?

I tried using:

seconds-from-duration($time, x         


        

Answer 1

A pure xsl 1.0 lib example:

    
    
        
        time_as_timestamp:

        
            
                
            
        
        time_as_xsdatetime:

        converted back:
        
            
        
    

Output:

time_as_timestamp:1365599995640
time_as_xsdatetime:2013-04-10T13:19:55.640Z
converted back:1365599995640