RE: [xsl] selecting a node to concatenate

[cknell@xxxxxxxxxx]

Assuming your concats and substrings are correct, you want to create a template to match "submissionDeadline" and apply the template from your stylesheet at the appropriate point.

Replace $currentTime with ".", which represents the current node.

<xsl:template match="submissionDeadline"><xsl:value-of select="concat(substring(., ,4),substring(.,6,2),substring(.,9,2),substring(.,12,2),substring (.,15,2),substring.,18,2))"/></xsl:template>
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Charles Knell
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-----Original Message-----
From:     Aaron Johnson <artpunx@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent:     Thu, 4 Oct 2007 18:25:39 +0100
To:       xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  [xsl] selecting a node to concatenate

I have a node in my XML which contains a date string. I want to
concatenate it into an integer. I can do the concat part using
substrings but can't work out how to select the node in the first
instance!

The XML looks like this...

2027-10-04T09:00:00.0000000-00:00</submissionDeadline>

..if I pass it to the stylesheet as a param or variable I can concatanate it...

<xsl:variable name="currentTime">2007-10-04T09:00:00.0000000+01:00</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="currentTimeString"
select="concat(substring($currentTime, 1,4),substring($currentTime,
6,2),substring($currentTime,
9,2),substring($currentTime,12,2),substring($currentTime,15,2),substring($currentTime,18,2))"/>

.. to make it look like this...

20071004090000

I need a way to select the <submissionDeadline> nodes content to get a
similar result.

Any ideas? Thanks for any suggestions...