month-abbreviation EXSLT date month-abbreviation 2 Jeni Tennison 2001-06-11
  • Removed second (optional date format) argument.
  • Added implementations in Javascript, XSLT and EXSLT - Functions.
 2.1 Jeni Tennison 2001-06-16
  • Updated Javascript implementation.
  • Added Microsoft-specific stylesheet.
 2.2 Jeni Tennison 2001-07-20
  • 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 Craig Stewart 2002-08-21 Added Xalan-J, libxslt and 4XSLT implementation to the list. 2.4 Craig Stewart 2002-11-12 Updated 4XSLT version to 0.12.0a3.

The date:month-abbreviation function returns the abbreviation 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:

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

The result is a three-letter English month abbreviation: one of 'Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov' or 'Dec'.

This implementation relies on date:date-time() being available in order to get the current date/time. If it isn't, it uses the global parameter $date:date-time as the current date/time.

This implementation relies on date:date-time() being available in order to get the current date/time. If it isn't, it uses the global parameter $date:date-time as the current date/time.

EXSLT date month-abbreviation Javascript 1 Chris Bayes chris@bayes.co.uk http://www.bayes.co.uk 2001-06-11 2 Chris Bayes chris@bayes.co.uk http://www.bayes.co.uk 2001-06-16 EXSLT date month-abbreviation MSXML 1 Chris Bayes chris@bayes.co.uk http://www.bayes.co.uk 2001-06-16