Date conversion in XSLT

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I have a xml which has date like this

XML

<tns:GoalsRequest>
    <tns:accountNumber>23456</tns:accountNumber>
    <tns:customerName>Smith</tns:customerName>
    <tns:customerDOB>22-AUG-1981</tns:customerDOB>
    <tns:searchBeginDate>13-DEC-1967</tns:searchBeginDate>
    <tns:searchEndDate>08-DEC-1968</tns:searchEndDate>
</tns:GoalsRequest>

Now I want to translate date to 1981-08-22

In my xsl I used

XML

<tns:customerDOB>
    <xsl:value-of select="format-date(bi:customerDOB,'[D01]-[M01]-[YYYY]')"/>
</tns:customerDOB>

But I am getting the following error

cast failed, invalid lexical value - xs:date'22-AUG-1981

Can anybody helpme to convert this date format

Thanks

Posted 24-Aug-12 12:03pm

rbjanaki

Updated 24-Aug-12 12:11pm

luisnike19

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Valery Possoz · Answer 1 · 2012-08-25T02:46:00

Hello,

format-date formats a date into the date format of your choice.
see here : http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions/[^]
and there:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#date[^]

Many parser will demand that the date you want to transform has a format like 2002-10-09T11:00:00, so 08-DEC-1968 will not be recognised.

A way to solve this is do it yourself and not use date-format, for example:

XML

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:template match="*">
    <xsl:value-of select="substring(customerDOB,8,4)" />
    <xsl:variable name="month" select="substring(customerDOB,4,3)" />
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="$month = 'JAN'">-01-</xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test="$month = 'FEB'">-02-</xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test="$month = 'MAR'">-03-</xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test="$month = 'APR'">-04-</xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test="$month = 'MAY'">-05-</xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test="$month = 'JUN'">-06-</xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test="$month = 'JUL'">-07-</xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test="$month = 'AUG'">-08-</xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test="$month = 'SEP'">-09-</xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test="$month = 'OCT'">-10-</xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test="$month = 'NOV'">-11-</xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test="$month = 'DEC'">-12-</xsl:when>
    </xsl:choose>
    <xsl:value-of select="substring(customerDOB,1,2)" />
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Hope it helps.

Valery.