XSL Date formatting

[Suvig]

The XML I have has the NEWS-PRESSDATE attribute. But, the date is in
number format (in milli-seconds):
  <NEWS-PRESSDATE>1080018000000</NEWS-PRESSDATE>

Q: How do I convert this to for format I want to display?
"March 23, 2004"

 

[Martin Honnen]

The XML I have has the NEWS-PRESSDATE attribute. But, the date is in
number format (in milli-seconds):
<NEWS-PRESSDATE>1080018000000</NEWS-PRESSDATE>

Q: How do I convert this to for format I want to display?
"March 23, 2004"

I don't think XPath 1.0 or XSLT 1.0 has functions to convert a value in
milliseconds (since Jan 1 1970 UTC??) to a date so you would need to use
an extension function which is very processor dependant or you need to
look for a XSLT library which you can use. Maybe
http://www.exslt.org/date/index.html
has some function you can use