Can an XSLT insert the current date

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A program we use in my office exports reports by translating a XML file it exports with an XSLT file into XHTML  I m rewriting the XSLT to change the formatting and to add more information from the source XML File   I d like to include the date the file was created in the final report  But the current date time is not included in the original XML file  nor do I have any control on how the XML file is created  There doesn t seem to be any date functions building into XSLT that will return the current date    Does anyone have any idea how I might be able to include the current date during my XSLT transformation

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xmlns msxsl  urn schemas-microsoft-com xslt      xmlns local  urn local  extension-element-prefixes  msxsl  gt        lt msxsl script language  CSharp  implements-prefix  local  gt          public string dateTimeNow                              return DateTime Now ToString  yyyy-MM-ddTHH mm ssZ                     lt  msxsl script gt             lt xsl value-of select  local dateTimeNow     gt

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For MSXML parser  try this    lt xsl stylesheet version  1 0                  xmlns xsl  http   www w3 org 1999 XSL Transform                  xmlns msxsl  urn schemas-microsoft-com xslt                  xmlns my  urn sample  extension-element-prefixes  msxml  gt        lt msxsl script language  JScript  implements-prefix  my  gt         function today                      return new Date                    lt  msxsl script gt        lt xsl template match     gt           Today    lt xsl value-of select  my today     gt        lt  xsl template gt    lt  xsl stylesheet gt    Also read XSLT Stylesheet Scripting using msxsl script and Extending XSLT with JScript  C   and Visual Basic  NET

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Do you have control over running the transformation   If so  you could pass in the current date to the XSL and use  current-date from inside your XSL   Below is how you declare the incoming parameter  but with knowing how you are running the transformation  I can t tell you how to pass in the value    lt xsl param name  current-date    gt    For example  from the bash script  use   xsltproc --stringparam current-date  date   Y- m- d  -o output html path-to xsl path-to xml   Then  in the xsl you can use    lt xsl value-of select   current-date   gt

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XSLT 2  Date functions are available natively  such as    lt xsl value-of  select  current-dateTime     gt    There is also current-date   and current-time     XSLT 1  Use the EXSLT date and times extension package    Download the date and times package from GitHub  Extract date xsl to the location of your XSL files  Set the stylesheet header  Import date xsl    For example    lt xsl stylesheet version  1 0       xmlns date  http   exslt org dates-and-times       extension-element-prefixes  date          gt        lt xsl import href  date xsl    gt        lt xsl template match    root  gt          lt xsl value-of select  date date-time     gt       lt  xsl template gt   lt  xsl stylesheet gt

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format-date current-date      M01   D01   Y0001      09 19 2013 format-time current-time      H01   m01   z      09 26 GMT 10 format-dateTime current-dateTime      h1   m01   P  on  MNn   D       9 26 a m  on September 19    reference  Formatting Dates and Times using XSLT 2 0 and XPath

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Late answer  but my solution works in Eclipse XSLT   Eclipse uses XSLT 1 at time of this writing   You can install an XSLT 2 engine like Saxon   Or you can use the XSLT 1 solution below to insert current date and time    lt xsl value-of select  java util Date new     gt    This will call Java s Data class to output the date   It will not work unless you also put the following  java   definition in your  lt xsl stylesheet gt  tag    lt xsl stylesheet     snip              xmlns java  java               snip     gt    I hope that helps someone   This simple answer was difficult to find for me

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