EXSLT - date:add

Implementer Page: date.add.html
Function Package: date.add.zip

Function Syntax

string date:add(string, string)

Template Syntax

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

The date:add function returns the date/time resulting from adding a duration to a date/time.

The first argument must be right-truncated date/time strings 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:gYear (CCYY)

The second argument is a string in the format defined for xs:duration in [3.2.6 duration] of [XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes].

The return value is a right-truncated date/time strings in one of the formats defined in [XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes] and listed above. This value is calculated using the algorithm described in [Appendix E Adding durations to dateTimes] of [XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes].

Implementations

The following XSLT processors support date:add:

4XSLT, from 4Suite. (version 0.12.0a3)
libxslt from Daniel Veillard et al. (version 1.0.19)

Implementations of date:add are available in the following languages: