Convert DateTime to seconds

[maxin]

Hi,

I have some date time in xml file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ProductionPerformance>
	<ActualStartTime>2008-12-07T01:00:00</ActualStartTime>
	<ActualEndTime>2008-12-09T01:00:00</ActualEndTime>
</ProductionPerformance>

where I need to convert ActualStratTime to seconds in xsl:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
	xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
	xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
	xmlns:date="http://exslt.org/dates-and-times" extension-element-prefixes="date">
		
	
<xsl:include href="date/functions/date-time/date.msxsl.xsl"/>

<xsl:template match="/ProductionPerformance">
<item>
	<xsl:variable name="mydatetime" select="'2009-02-27T15:34:01'"/>
	<xsl:value-of select="date:seconds($mydatetime)"/>
</item>
<item>
	<xsl:value-of select="./ActualStartTime"/>
</item>
<item>
	<xsl:variable name="myseconds" select="./ActualStartTime"/>
	<xsl:value-of select="date:seconds($myseconds)"/>
</item>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

I use date:seconds function to convert the ActualStartTime . It works in the first item when I write '2009-02-27T15:34:01'´as input for the function. However, it does not works anymore when I try to get data from item ./ActualStartTime from the first xml file. I got an error: "Microsoft JScript runtime error Wrong number of arguments or invalid property assignment line = 953, col = 3 (line is offset...
". It seems that it can not get the input.

Could someone help?
Regards
maxin

[jkmyoung]

Try

<xsl:variable name="myseconds">
  <xsl:value-of select="./ActualStartTime"/> 
</xsl:variable>

The difference? $myseconds is now a String instead of an XMLNodeList.

[maxin]

Hi,
Thanks for your answer. However, I get the same error as before.
Regards
maxin