EXSLT or date-time functions

Monday, February 15, 2021
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In my custom report I need to calculate number of days between two dates. How can I implement it?

Are any EXSLT libraries installed?

like: http://exslt.org/date/functions/difference/date.difference.html or fn:day-from-dateTime(datetime) ?

Otherwise it looks like it is rather complicated...

Could somebody write several examples how to deal with it?

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Monday, February 15, 2021
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re: ilyapolyakov Monday, February 15, 2021

Hi Ilya,

Unfortunately the Microsoft libraries used by SpiraTeam are only XSLT 1.0 compatible and you cannot include third party libraries. However there is the following solution from: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38604414/finding-the-difference-between-two-datetimes-in-xslt

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

<xsl:template match="event">
    <xsl:variable name="start">
        <xsl:call-template name="dateTime-to-seconds">
            <xsl:with-param name="dateTime" select="start/@time" />
        </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:variable> 
    
    <xsl:variable name="end">
        <xsl:call-template name="dateTime-to-seconds">
            <xsl:with-param name="dateTime" select="end/@time" />
        </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:variable>
    
    <xsl:variable name="duration" select="$end - $start" />
    <xsl:variable name="d" select="floor($duration div 86400)"/>
    <xsl:variable name="t" select="$duration mod 86400"/>
    <xsl:variable name="h" select="floor($t div 3600)"/>
    <xsl:variable name="r" select="$t mod 3600"/>
    <xsl:variable name="m" select="floor($r div 60)"/>
    <xsl:variable name="s" select="$r mod 60"/>
    
    <xsl:copy>
        <xsl:copy-of select="name"/>
        <duration>
            <xsl:value-of select="$d"/>
            <xsl:text> days, </xsl:text>
            <xsl:value-of select="$h"/>
            <xsl:text> hours, </xsl:text>
            <xsl:value-of select="$m"/>
            <xsl:text> minutes and </xsl:text>
            <xsl:value-of select="$s"/>
            <xsl:text> seconds</xsl:text>
        </duration>
    </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="dateTime-to-seconds">
    <xsl:param name="dateTime"/>

    <xsl:variable name="date" select="substring-before($dateTime, 'T')" />
    <xsl:variable name="time" select="substring-after($dateTime, 'T')" />

    <xsl:variable name="local-time" select="substring($time, 1, string-length($time) - 6)" />
    <xsl:variable name="offset" select="substring-after($time, $local-time)" />

    <xsl:variable name="year" select="substring($date, 1, 4)" />
    <xsl:variable name="month" select="substring($date, 6, 2)" />
    <xsl:variable name="day" select="substring($date, 9, 2)" />

    <xsl:variable name="hour" select="substring($local-time, 1, 2)" />
    <xsl:variable name="minute" select="substring($local-time, 4, 2)" />
    <xsl:variable name="second" select="substring($local-time, 7)" />

    <xsl:variable name="offset-sign" select="1 - 2 * starts-with($offset, '-')" />
    <xsl:variable name="offset-hour" select="substring($offset, 2, 2) * $offset-sign" />
    <xsl:variable name="offset-minute" select="substring($offset, 5, 2) * $offset-sign" />

    <xsl:variable name="a" select="floor((14 - $month) div 12)"/>
    <xsl:variable name="y" select="$year + 4800 - $a"/>
    <xsl:variable name="m" select="$month + 12*$a - 3"/>    
    <xsl:variable name="jd" select="$day + floor((153*$m + 2) div 5) + 365*$y + floor($y div 4) - floor($y div 100) + floor($y div 400) - 32045" />

    <xsl:value-of select="86400*$jd + 3600*$hour + 60*$minute + $second - 3600*$offset-hour - 60*$offset-minute" />
</xsl:template> 

</xsl:stylesheet>

Regards

David

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