Using Xalan-Java and XSLT, I am trying to convert date from an input xml
that has it expressed as a single number (in milliseconds) e.g. the input
xml has 1088499889000 that corresponds to the date 2004-06-29
09:04:49.000GMT.
To try and do this within XSLT, I looked up extensions like XSLT-SL and
EXSLT - but they do not seem to have functions for this. Are there any
extensions available that I could use for this conversion?
Since doing this conversion using java api is simpleand since Xalan-J allows
calls to java functions from XSL, so an alternative option is to convert the
numeric date by calls to Java api from within xsl. But restrictions on
numeric parameter-types in such calls prevent me from making all java calls
from xsl - instead I need to write my own java method for those calls and
then call that function from xsl. Since I am using Xalan-J, I am hoping that
the performance impact of making Java calls from XSL should not be too bad.
Is there any other/better/easier way to do this?
- Vishwajit.
