XSLT, 2nd Edition

Name

[2.0] current-date()

Returns the current date as an xs:date value.

Syntax

xs:date current-date()

Inputs

None.

Output

An xs:date value set to the current time on the system. The returned value is set to the default timezone. (You can get the details of the default timezone with the implicit-timezone() function). The current-date() function returns the same value throughout the processing of the stylesheet. If you call current-date() a dozen times throughout your stylesheet, the function returns the same value each time.

Defined in

XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators section 16, “Context Functions.”

Example

Here is a stylesheet that displays the current date. It uses the current-date(), format-date(), and implicit-timezone() functions.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- current-date.xsl -->
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

  <xsl:output method="text"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:text>The current date is </xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of 
      select="format-date(current-date(), 
              '[FNn], the [D1o] of [MNn], [Y01]')"/>
    <xsl:text>&#xA;&#xA;The implicit timezone for the </xsl:text>
    <xsl:text>current context is: </xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select="implicit-timezone()"/>
    <xsl:text>&#xA;&#xA;The timezone extracted from the </xsl:text>
    <xsl:text>current date is: </xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select="timezone-from-date(current-date())"/>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Here are the stylesheet’s results:

The current date is Thursday, the 6th of July, 06 The implicit ...