Displaying Date as DD-MM-YYYY within XSLT/XML

Question

Been trying to format the text to display as DD-MM-YYYY when pulled from XML to XSLT 1.0, since I know it has to be laid out as YYYY-MM-DD within XSD/XML when using xs:date whic

Answer 1

I would use different solutions from those provided by @Stormtroopr for both 1.0 and 2.0.

In 2.0 use

format-date(xs:date($date), '[D01]-[M01]-[Y0001]')

In 1.0 use

concat(substring(., 9, 2), 
         '-', 
         substring(., 6, 2), 
         '-', 
         substring(., 1, 4))

For future reference, please tell us which version of XSLT you are using. Both 1.0 and 2.0 are in common use, and the solutions are often different.