Discussion

That's pretty cool. I've been querying a batch file that returns the date (date /T). I like that this doesn't require external files.

Here is my XSL for formatting the result. Might be useful to someone. 

<xsl:template name="GetCurrentDate">
   <!-- TODO: When ePub supports XSL version 2.0, use current-dateTime() instead.
     <xsl:variable name="Foo" select="current-dateTime()" />
   -->
  <xsl:variable name="GetDateBatchFile">
    <xsl:value-of select="wwfilesystem:Combine( wwprojext:GetProjectFormatDirectoryPath(), 'tools', 'getdate.bat' )" />
  </xsl:variable>
  <xsl:choose>
   <xsl:when test="wwfilesystem:Exists( $GetDateBatchFile )" >
   
     <xsl:variable name="rawDate" >
       <xsl:value-of select="wwstring:ReplaceWithExpression( wwstring:ReplaceWithExpression( wwexec:ExecuteCommand( $GetDateBatchFile ), '[\n\r]', '' ), ' $','')" />
     </xsl:variable>
     <xsl:variable name="monthName" >
       <xsl:value-of select="substring('JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSebOctNovDec', (number(substring-after( substring-before( $rawDate, '/'), ' '))-1)*3+1, 3)" />
     </xsl:variable>
     <xsl:variable name="monthDay" >
       <xsl:value-of select="substring-before( substring-after( $rawDate, '/'), '/')" />
     </xsl:variable>
     <xsl:variable name="monthYear" >
       <xsl:value-of select="substring-after( substring-after( $rawDate, '/'), '/')" />
     </xsl:variable>
      
     <xsl:value-of select="concat( $monthName, ' ',$monthDay, ', ', $monthYear )" />
     
   </xsl:when>
   <xsl:otherwise>
       <xsl:variable name="VarLogDate" select="wwlog:Warning('Could not determine current date, using default 01/01/2007 instead.')" />
       <xsl:value-of select="'01/01/2007'" />
   </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

StudyHall/Adding a date/time/Discussion (last edited 2013-01-18 23:33:53 by MikeHedblom)