Re: Dates in XSL:FO

In a message dated 06/12/01 16:16:55 GMT Standard Time, 
Erich.Kilmer@mmt.bellhowell.com writes:


> In our XML all dates are in the form YYYYMMDD. I would like to display them
> as MM/DD/YYYY. 
> I know in the past when I had looked for a way to do this I was unsuccessful
> but I thought I would try again.
> 
> Is there any XSL:FO tags to handle the formatting of dates or will there be
> any soon?
> Is there another way to do the same thing?

Erich,

The XPath substring() function should be able to do what you want, assuming 
you are transforming using XSLT.

Andrew Watt