Michael Kay wrote:
Read it in the calling application and pass it to the stylesheet as a
parameter.

mmh...

excuse me Michael, but I didn't point out (my sample was oversimplified) 
that my processing involves several XML sources dynamically collected 
via xsl:document instruction elements -- so I can't rely on a pre-proc 
gathering.



I thought about XSLT extensions... what's your hint? Is there any 
(within some extent) standardized function for this purpose?



Michael Kay

http://www.saxonica.com/ 



-----Original Message-----

From: Blue Gecko

Sent: 04 October 2005 14:55

To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: [xsl] Modification date/time of an XML file during 
its XSLT-processing - how to get?



Hello folks,



I need to insert the modification date/time (timestamp) of a 
source XML 
file into the transformed contents, just like this:



<!-- XSLT output.

"lastModification" attribute comes from the timestamp of my 
source XML file.

-->

<foo lastModification="2005-10-04T13:20:00.000+01:00">

<items/>

</foo>



could anyone suggest me how to obtain such timestamp in the 
context of 
an XSLT processing?



Many thanks