Translation of <date><today /></date>

[jsebastie...@gmail.com]

I wanted to add the tags <date><today /></date> to my frontpage to know which version is live. The date does not get translated to french. 

Is that an easy fix?  I can't find any place in fr-FR.xsl where months/day are mentionned, so I figure it must be done outside of this.

[Rob Beezer]

Right. The values are coming from

http://exslt.org/date/

and it appears to me that there is no option for different languages, and that
values are in English.

We have two options for an @format option:

'month-day-year' and 'yyyy/mm/dd'

As a stopgap, you can try the all-number version (which I would do today with a
dash, not slash).

But certainly we could put month names in the localization files in the various
languages (and not day names?).

And we could institute different formats for dates:

17 February 2020

Bonus: make the default format vary with the language.

If you were willing to provide French names (plus) and help design and test, it
would not be too big a job to write the code.

Rob

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[jsebastie...@gmail.com]

A quick look at http://exslt.org/date/index.html under other element shows <date:date-format name = qname calendar = "gregorian" | qname-but-not-ncname lang = language first-day-of-week = "sunday" | "monday" | "tuesday" | "wednesday" | "thursday" | "friday" | "saturday" | string />

Do we/can we use something like this?

I'm willing to help, but I'll need to be told were to look and what to change. Can test no problem

[Rob Beezer]

Good catch. That is an "extension element", which is a construction I don't
think we have ever used, rather than an "extension function" which is used
routinely.

I tried to give it a go (I think I used it correctly) but it provoked errors.
Which may not be a surpise since

http://exslt.org/date/elements/date-format/index.html

says

> There are currently no XSLT processors that we know of that support date:date-format natively.
>
> There are currently no third-party implementations of date:date-format.

I'll give some thought to how to implement this, I'll just need your help with
translations and formats.

Rob

On 8/25/20 1:08 PM, jsebastie...@gmail.com wrote:
> A quick look at http://exslt.org/date/index.html under other element shows
> <date:date-format name = qname calendar = "gregorian" | qname-but-not-ncname

> *lang = language * first-day-of-week = "sunday" | "monday" | "tuesday" |

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[Jean-Sébastien Turcotte]

Ping me when ready! 

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[jsebastie...@gmail.com]

Our conversation about fr-CA had me thinking about this date issue. Where you able to make any progress? Can I help in any way?