how to find the current date in XSLT 1.0

Question

I am finding trouble in retrieving the current date in my XSLT code. I am using version 1.0 and MSXSL.exe application to trigger my xslt code. I tried using the following line of code to implement this functionality, however its not working. Looks like the version 1.0 doesn't support the current date function. Could you please provide a solution which will work for xslt 1.0.

               <xsl:value of select="current-date()"/>

Answer 1

There is no current-date() function in XSLT 1.0.

If your processor supports it, you can use the date-time() EXSLT extension function. Otherwise you will have to pass the date as a parameter to the stylesheet during runtime, or get it from a web service.

Answer 2

With MSXML you can use extension functions done in JScript or VBScript, see http://www.exslt.org/date/functions/date-time/index.html for details and an implementation http://www.exslt.org/date/functions/date-time/date.msxsl.xsl which should work with MSXML.