Date function in XSL

Question

Hi,
I am inserting XML data into database using XSL
XML File
<Employee_details>
     <Emp_cd>E002</Emp_cd>
     <Emp_name>Puneet</Emp_name>
     <Emp_DOB>12-dec-90</Emp_DOB>
     <Emp_Height>6.1</Emp_Height>
     <Emp_address>Aundh</Emp_address>
     <Emp_Desgn>TL</Emp_Desgn>
     <Emp_Salary>370000</Emp_Salary>
     <Emp_Dept>EDP</Emp_Dept>
     <Emp_DOJ>12-mar-07 03:30</Emp_DOJ>
</Employee_details>
XLS File:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
     <xsl:template match="/Employee">
          <ROWSET>
          <xsl:for-each select="Employee_details">
               <ROW>
                    <EMP_CD>
                         <xsl:value-of select="Emp_cd"/>
                    </EMP_CD>
                    <EMP_DESGN>
                         <xsl:value-of select="Emp_Desgn"/>
                    </EMP_DESGN>
                    <EMP_SALARY>
                         <xsl:value-of select="Emp_Salary"/>
                    </EMP_SALARY>
                    <EMP_DEPT>
                         <xsl:value-of select="Emp_Dept"/>
                    </EMP_DEPT>
                    <EMP_DOJ>
                         <xsl:value-of select="Emp_DOJ"/>
                    </EMP_DOJ>
               </ROW>
          </xsl:for-each>
          </ROWSET>
     </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
i am sucessfully inserting date into table in format of dd-Mon-YYYY. but whenever i am trying to inserting the date in format dd-Mon-YYYY hh:mi its giving error like parsing xml file
i tried to change the date format in XSL like
<EMP_DOJ>
<xsl:value-of select="xs:dateTime(Emp_DOJ,''dd-Mon-YYYY hh:mi'')"/>
</EMP_DOJ>
but its not working as well,
whenever we have to insert the datetime value in table we have to use
to_date(emp_jod,'dd-Mon-YYYY hh:mi') but how it implement in XSL

Answer 1

Does this help?
SQL> CREATE TABLE emp_test (
  2   emp_cd     VARCHAR2(10),
  3   emp_desgn  VARCHAR2(30),
  4   emp_salary NUMBER,
  5   emp_dept   VARCHAR2(3),
  6   emp_doj    DATE
  7  );
Table created
SQL> DECLARE
  2 
  3   xml_data xmltype :=
  4   xmltype('<Employee_details>
  5  <Emp_cd>E002</Emp_cd>
  6  <Emp_name>Puneet</Emp_name>
  7  <Emp_DOB>12-dec-90</Emp_DOB>
  8  <Emp_Height>6.1</Emp_Height>
  9  <Emp_address>Aundh</Emp_address>
10  <Emp_Desgn>TL</Emp_Desgn>
11  <Emp_Salary>370000</Emp_Salary>
12  <Emp_Dept>EDP</Emp_Dept>
13  <Emp_DOJ>12-mar-07 03:30</Emp_DOJ>
14  </Employee_details>');
15 
16   xsl_data xmltype :=
17   xmltype('<?xml version="1.0"?>
18  <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
19  <xsl:template match="/">
20  <ROWSET>
21  <xsl:for-each select="Employee_details">
22  <ROW>
23  <EMP_CD><xsl:value-of select="Emp_cd"/></EMP_CD>
24  <EMP_DESGN><xsl:value-of select="Emp_Desgn"/></EMP_DESGN>
25  <EMP_SALARY><xsl:value-of select="Emp_Salary"/></EMP_SALARY>
26  <EMP_DEPT><xsl:value-of select="Emp_Dept"/></EMP_DEPT>
27  <EMP_DOJ><xsl:value-of select="Emp_DOJ"/></EMP_DOJ>
28  </ROW>
29  </xsl:for-each>
30  </ROWSET>
31  </xsl:template>
32  </xsl:stylesheet>');
33 
34   v_context DBMS_XMLStore.ctxType;
35   v_rows    NUMBER;
36 
37  BEGIN
38 
39   -- change session nls to handle implicit conversion from date string :
40   execute immediate 'alter session set nls_date_format = ''dd-mon-rr hh24:mi''';
41 
42   v_context := DBMS_XMLStore.newContext('EMP_TEST');
43   v_rows := DBMS_XMLStore.insertXML(v_context, xml_data.transform(xsl_data));
44   DBMS_XMLStore.closeContext(v_context);
45 
46  END;
47  /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed
SQL> select * from emp_test;
EMP_CD     EMP_DESGN                      EMP_SALARY EMP EMP_DOJ
E002       TL                                 370000 EDP 12/03/2007 03:30:00If it's important for you, you may store the previous nls setting and reset it after loading.
Erm... wait... It won't work if you try to load "emp_DOB" in the same time.
I guess you'll have to ensure that all date strings come with the same format.
You can do that in the XSL :
<EMP_DOB><xsl:value-of select="concat(Emp_DOB,'' 00:00'')"/></EMP_DOB>Edited by: odie_63 on 30 juil. 2010 11:52
Edited by: odie_63 on 30 juil. 2010 12:00