Issue with using year-from-dateTime function

Question

Hi
I am novice on XML and related technologies and as luch would have it I need to get a value in YYYY-MM-DD irrespective of input format.
I am using the Xpath functions year-from-dateTime,month-from-dateTime etc to split up the input value and put the net in the required format.
When I am trying to use fn:year-from-dateTime to get year from a variable that consists of "29/07/09" as below
{color:#0000ff}*<xsl:value-of select="fn:year-from-dateTime(xs:date('29/07/09'))">*{color}
where 'fn' prefix refers to http://www.w3.org/2005/02/xpath-functions
and 'xs' prefix refers to http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema
and I am getting below error while running transformation from java...
{color:#ff0000}*'The first argument to the non-static Java function 'date' is not a valid object reference.'*
FATAL ERROR: 'Could not compile stylesheet'{color}
I dont know of any method "date" in java
Can any body help me on this...I have been breaking my head on this since yesterday..

Answer 1

"BJWILD" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:g7dqkq$bqn$[email protected]..
> Im trying to create a functino that takes an array as a
parameter and give
> it a
> default value of an empty array however im getting 1047:
Parameter
> initializer
> is unknown with a number of ways I have tried.
>
> eg:
>
> public function foo( myArray:Array = [] ):void{
> // do stuff with the array
> }
>
> generated this error:
> 1047: Parameter initializer unknown or is not a
compile-time constant.
>
> using myArray:Array = new Array() gives the same
error...
>
>
> Anyone else come across this?
try
public function foo(myArray:Array=null):void{
if (myArray==null){
myArray=new Array();
not sure why what you tried isn't working, but this is one
way arround it...