XSLT Get Current date or Today in XSLT

Question

Help please can anyone advise how I get current date, or today method in xslt 1.o SharePoint

Answer 1

I'm not sure if XSLT 1.0 have today's date method. However, XSLT 2.0 has an equivalent current-date()

Have you tried?

ddwrt:Today()

<xsl:value-of select="ddwrt:Today()"/>

ddwrt:TodayIso()

<xsl:value-of select="ddwrt:FormatDateTime(ddwrt:Today(),1033,'yyyyMMdd')"/>

Answer 2

When you add a DVWP to the page in SharePoint Designer, SPD defined a variable which contains the current date for you in the ParameterBindings section:

<ParameterBinding Name="Today" Location="CAMLVariable" DefaultValue="CurrentDate"/>

Be sure to declare Today as a param at the top of the stylesheet:

<xsl:param name="Today" />

Then you can use $Today however you need it.

The ddwrt:Today() function is also useful, but there's no real need for it when SPD is already handing you the value.