Re: [Xsltforms-support] Date formatting

[Richard L. <ric...@gm...>]

Hi,

To answer part of my own question:

> As well as switching day and month, I would really like to output the
> dates that the user selects in the format we recommend to our users:
> 'dd.mm.YYYY'. I've tried writing a <setvalue> command, but to no avail:
>
> >             <action ev:event="xforms-ready">
> >                   <setvalue 
> > ref="ProcedureTemplate/Object/Movement/DateRequested" 
> > value="concat(substring-before(substring-after(., '/'), '/'), '.', 
> > substring-before(., '/'), '.', substring-after(substring-after(., 
> > '/'), '/'))"/>
> >                </action>
> Is this approach doomed to failure, or have I just made a minor coding
> error?
I had indeed made a coding error. In my XForms document I have chosen to 
declare the xf: prefix, so the above code was never acted upon. On 
adding the prefix, it works perfectly, in a sense. When I click on the 
three dots to the right of the input I get:

without the date picker ever being displayed. Two dots is exactly what 
my value XPath should produce, when acting on an empty string. 
Presumably I need to call my action in response to a different event? Or 
is this whole approach doomed to failure?

Thanks,

Richard

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