EXSLT - date:month-name - Implementer Page

Version: 2
Status: implemented
User Page: index.html
XML Definition: date.month-name.xml
Function Package: date.month-name.zip

Function Syntax

string date:month-name(string?)

Template Syntax

<xsl:call-template name="date:month-name">
   <xsl:with-param name="date-time" select="string" />?
</xsl:call-template>

The date:month-name function returns the full name of the month of a date. If no argument is given, then the current local date/time, as returned by date:date-time is used the default argument.

The date/time string specified as the argument is a left or right-truncated string in the format defined as the lexical representation of xs:dateTime in one of the formats defined in [XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes]. The permitted formats are as follows:

xs:dateTime (CCYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss)
xs:date (CCYY-MM-DD)
xs:gYearMonth (CCYY-MM)
xs:gMonth (--MM--)

If the date/time string is not in one of these formats, then an empty string ('') is returned.

The result is an English month name: one of 'January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November' or 'December'.

An implementation of this extension function in the EXSLT date namespace must conform to the behaviour described in this document.

Implementations

Built-in support for date:month-name is available in the following XSLT processors:

Processor	Processor Version	Implemented Version
SAXON from Michael Kay	6.4.2	2
Xalan-J from Apache	2.4.D1	2
4XSLT, from 4Suite.	0.12.0a3	2
libxslt from Daniel Veillard et al.	1.0.19	2

The following implementations of date:month-name are available:

Language	Implemented Version	Creator	Date	Download
EXSLT Function	2	Jeni Tennison	2001-06-11	date.month-name.function.xsl
XSLT Template	2	Jeni Tennison	2001-06-11	date.month-name.template.xsl
Javascript	2	Chris Bayes	2001-06-11	date.js
Msxsl	2	Chris Bayes	2001-06-16	date.msxsl.xsl

Change History

Previous Version: date.month-name.1.html

Version	Modified	By	Details
2	2001-06-11	Jeni Tennison	Removed second (optional date format) argument. Added implementations in Javascript, XSLT and EXSLT - Functions.
2.1	2001-06-16	Jeni Tennison	Updated Javascript implementation. Added Microsoft-specific stylesheet.
2.2	2001-07-20	Jeni Tennison	If the date format passed as an argument is invalid, the function should return an empty string. Added vendor implementation in Saxon 6.4.2
2.3	2002-08-21	Craig Stewart	Added Xalan-J, libxslt and 4XSLT implementation to the list.
2.4	2002-11-12	Craig Stewart	Updated 4XSLT version to 0.12.0a3.