format and display datetime in xslt

Question

I have an XML with datetime data:

<A>
    <StartDate>2011-11-01T00:00:00</StartDate>
    <EndDate>2011-11-30T00:00:00</EndDate>
    <IsRecurring>false</IsRecurring>
</A>

I need to get in xslt only the dates in the following format:

01/11/2011 - 30/11/2011

When I do:

<xsl:value-of select="A/StartDate/"> - <xsl:value-of select="A/EndDate/">

I get this:

2011-11-01T00:00:00 - 2011-11-30T00:00:00

How can I display it properly?

Answer 1

Look at XPath string functions: substring, substring-before and etc.

Reference: http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/#section-String-Functions

<xsl:variable name="dt" select="'2011-11-01T12:13:59'"/>

        <xsl:value-of select="concat(
                      substring($dt, 9, 2),
                      '/',
                      substring($dt, 6, 2),
                      '/',
                      substring($dt, 1, 4)
                      )"/>