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greystate on 06/29/06


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Monthnames in XSLT

Published in: XML 

Building blocks for outputting a month's name in XSLT, using an old "assembler trick".

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  1. <!-- Variable -->
  2. <xsl:variable name="monthnames">January   February  March     April     May       June      July      August    September October   November  December  </xsl:variable>
  3.  
  4. <!-- Template -->
  5. <xsl:template match="@date" mode="month-name">
  6. 	<xsl:variable name="index" select="number(substring(., 6, 2)) - 1" />
  7. 	<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(substring($monthnames, $index * 10, 10))" />
  8. </xsl:template>
  9.  
  10. <!-- Executioner -->
  11. <xsl:apply-templates select="@date" mode="month-name" />

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