XSL - Using DateTime Functions

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I have an XSL document which I am in the process of creating but when I try to use the DateTime functions specified here: http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/xpath_functions.asp

Such as dateTime or year-from-dateTime it says that they're unrecognised functions?

Here are the namespaces Im using:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:xheader="http://schemas.microsoft.com/dynamics/2008/01/documents/Message"
    xmlns:xsales="http://schemas.microsoft.com/dynamics/2008/01/documents/SalesInvoice"
    exclude-result-prefixes="xheader xsales"
>

I'm currently creating the XSL in Visual Studio, if that helps?

Martin Honnen · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-18 10:32:52Z

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You need to use an XSLT 2.0 processor like Saxon 9 or AltovaXML or XmlPrime if you want to use XSLT and XPath 2.0 features like those functions. Microsoft's XSLT processors (like the various MSXML versions from MSXML 3 to 6 and XslCompiledTransform and XslTransform in .NET) only support XSLT 1.0.

answered Oct 18, 2012 at 10:32

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Madurika Welivita · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-18 10:25:41Z

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dateTime and year-from-dateTime functions are in XSLT 2.0. You are using version="1.0"

answered Oct 18, 2012 at 10:25

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CallumVass Over a year ago

Ok, I changed it to 2.0 and I still get the same message: 'dateTime()' is an unknown XSLT function.

CallumVass Over a year ago

Nope? It says the same thing. year-from-date() is an unknown XSLT function.

Michael Kay Over a year ago

Changing the version number in your stylesheet to 2.0 doesn't change the Microsoft XSLT processor into an XSLT 2.0 processor.

Madurika Welivita Over a year ago

stackoverflow.com/questions/515979/… saxon.sourceforge.net altova.com/xslt2-net.html think you can get help from above

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:12:26Z

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Looks like you are using XSLT 1.0, but the date functions are only available directly in XSLT 2.0. Unfortunately it is not really simple to run XSLT 2.0 from VS but See link for some info on integrating this against VS.

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answered Oct 18, 2012 at 10:30

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CallumVass Over a year ago

I tried the examples in the link but I still get the same error.

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