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Submitted a bug. Ciao :)

Date utilities updated to version 0.1.1 on 5th of December 2010

Ciao @eKoeS

I'd like to use your utility to test if a date in my XML output is earlier than today. The reason I'm not using a data source for this is that my date is stored in a text input so the "earlier than today" filter will not work.

So the XML looks like this:

<member-info>
    <entry>
         <mc-paid-until handle="2011-12-09">2011-12-09</mc-paid-until>
    </entry>
</member-info>

What I'd like to do is to use a choose statement to show a payment form if the $today parameter is later than the value of mc-paid-until or to show a welcome message if $today is the same as or earlier than mc-paid-until.

Is this something the utility can do? If so, please could you suggest what the syntax would be.

Grazie :-)

I've not used this before but looking at the example it should be possible. The date-compare template returns -1, 0 or 1 depending on whether the dates are before, equal or later than one another. You can put this result into a variable then run tests against it:

<xsl:variable name="is-later">
    <xsl:call-template name="date-compare">
        <xsl:with-param name="first" select="mc-paid-until"/>
        <xsl:with-param name="second" select="$today"/>
    </xsl:call-template>
</xsl:variable>

<xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="$is-later &gt; 1">
        <!-- date is later -->
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
        <!-- date is earlier -->
    </xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>

Not sure if I got the order the right way around, but the concept should work.

Ciao Stuart :)

Nick got it right, except for the test condition that should probably be:

$is-later = 1

or

$is-later > 0

Cheers!

Thanks again Nick. Grazie Simone. Tutto va bene :-)