XSLT, 2nd Edition

Name

[2.0] seconds-from-dateTime()

Given an xs:dateTime value, returns its seconds value.

Syntax

xs:decimal? seconds-from-dateTime(xs:dateTime?)

Inputs

An xs:dateTime value.

Output

An xs:decimal representing the seconds component of the given xs:dateTime value. If the argument is the empty sequence, this function returns the empty sequence.

Defined in

XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators section 10.5, “Component Extraction Functions on Durations, Dates and Times.”

Example

This stylesheet demonstrates the seconds-from-dateTime() function:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- seconds-from-datetime.xsl -->
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

  <xsl:output method="text"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:text>&#xA;Extracting the seconds from an xs:dateTime:</xsl:text>
    <xsl:variable name="currentDateTime" as="xs:dateTime" 
      select="current-dateTime()"/>
    <xsl:text>&#xA;&#xA;  The current date and time is: </xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select="$currentDateTime"/>

    <xsl:text>&#xA;&#xA;  The current seconds are: </xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select="seconds-from-dateTime($currentDateTime)"/>
    <xsl:text>, &#xA;    usually written as a whole number (</xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select="format-dateTime($currentDateTime, '[s01]')"/>
    <xsl:text>)</xsl:text>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

The stylesheet creates these results:

Extracting the seconds from an xs:dateTime: The current date and time is: 2006-11-16T05:02:55.438-05:00 The current ...