Adding a date time stamp to an xml using xsl

HTML & CSS
1

hi…
complete newbie to xsl here. i’m writing an xsl stylesheet to convert one xml to another. within this xsl, i need to generate a date time stamp which will insert the current date and time into the output xml in the format yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss. the output xml tag should look something like this:

<DateTimeStamp>2004-10-25 02:54:55</DateTimeStamp>

Any ideas would be really helpful. I’m really in the dark about this one :frowning:
Thanx!

2

It would be nice to know what your transforming the document with…

Pass by param


  <?xml version="1.0"?>
  <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  
    <xsl:variable name="timestamp" value="false" />
  
    <xsl:template mode="datetime" match="*">
  	<datetime>
  	  <xsl:value-of select="$timestamp"/>
  	</datetime>
    </xsl:template>
  </xsl:stylesheet>

EXSLT
MS-XML: http://www.exslt.org/date/functions/date-time/date.date-time.zip

Java


  <?xml version="1.0"?>
  <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    exclude-result-prefixes="java"
    xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/xslt/java">
  
    <xsl:template mode="datetime" match="*">
  	<datetime>
 	 <xsl:value-of select="java:format(java:java.text.SimpleDateFormat.new('yyyyMMddHHmmss' ), java:java.util.Date.new())"/>
  	</datetime>
    </xsl:template>
  </xsl:stylesheet>

There are many more methods, but you really need to indicate what technologies you are using to transform the document…

3

I’m using MSXML for transformation. Right now I’m just opening my input xml and checking the output using Marrowsoft Xselerator. If possible, I don’t want to use java to generate date-time stamp. I didn’t really understand the first code snippit :confused: . How do you pass by param? I tried inserting this code into my xsl, but i get an error saying “xsl:template may not be used here”. Here’s what I did…

<xsl:stylesheet version=“1.0”
xmlns:xsl=“http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform”>
<xsl: output method=“xml” omit-xml-declaration=“yes” />
<xsl:template match=“Input”>
<Result>
<xsl:variable name=“timestamp”/>
<xsl:template mode=“datetime” match=“*”>
<datetime>
<xsl:value-of select=“$timestamp”/>
</datetime>
</xsl:template>

                                    ...........

(i took out value=“false” in the<xsl:variable name=“timestamp” value=“false” />
coz that was popping up an error saying “Attribute ‘value’ is invalid on 'xsl:variable”)

   If you could please explain what happened up there or any other suggestions, it would be really helpful!