Basic Date Formatting
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You are missing the format
param:
<xsl:call-template name="format-date"> <xsl:with-param name="date" value="'2005-12-01'"/> <xsl:with-param name="format" value="'M D, Y'"/> </xsl:call-template>
Thanks @thebestsophist, but from the documentation the 'format' parameter is optional. I also mentioned that I had tried with the format parameter set to 'Y', 'M', and 'y' and gotten no result. If I try your example I also get nothing.
|<xsl:call-template name="format-date"> <xsl:with-param name="date" value="'2005-12-01'"/> <xsl:with-param name="format" value="'M D, Y'"/> </xsl:call-template>|
yields: ||
Your with-param
element is not written correctly. It should look like this:
<xsl:call-template name="format-date"> <xsl:with-param name="date" select="'2005-12-01'" /> </xsl:call-template>
Notice the select
instead of value
.
facepalm
I am new to XSLT (can you tell?!) and I make this same mistake at least 3 times a day working with Symphony, but I tell you I am still blind to it.
Needless to say this completely fixed my problem. Thank you very much @Nils! Sorry to waste your time... Hopefully this will be the straw that broke the camel's back and makes me stop doing this...
:: headdesk :: I missed that too.
You're welcome :)
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I am having trouble with the utility Format Date/Time. All I want is to take a date from a regular date field and show it on the page in any other format than 2013-01-02. Using this utility like this:
I get
NaNth
. If I send a simple format like 'Y' or 'M' or 'y' - I get nothing. Am I using this utility that wrong? I cannot find any examples of how to call it.Is there some other way? This cannot be an uncommon task. All I want is to turn 2013-01-02 into January 2nd, 2013.
Thanks for reading.