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I'm editing the itemstyle.xsl to produce my own styling for a Content Query Web Part (CQWP) as follows: (NB - 2 laternative lines of code are shown as (A) and (B)

<xsl:template name="MyNewStyle" match="Row[@Style='MyNewStyle']" mode="itemstyle">
<div class="SipAddress">
  <xsl:value-of select="@SipAddress" />
</div>
<div class="LinkToolTip">
  <xsl:value-of select="@LinkToolTip" />
</div>
<div class="OpenInNewWindow">
  <xsl:value-of select="@OpenInNewWindow" />
</div>
<div class="OnClickForWebRendering">
  <xsl:value-of select="@OnClickForWebRendering" />
</div>
   <div>
   <table width="100%" >
   <tr>
      <td width="45%" ><xsl:value-of select="@Title" /></td>
       <td width="33%"><xsl:value-of select="@Location" /></td>
       (A) <td width="32%"><xsl:value-of select="@EventDate"/></td>
       (B) <td width="32%"><xsl:value-of select="msxsl:format-date(@EventDate, 'dd/mm/yyyy h:mm')"/></td>

   </tr>
  </table>         
  </div>

Using line (A) works in that all the data is all pulled through (I have also edited the CommonViewField in the webpart)

However the date appears in this format: 2011-04-21 10:00:00

So after a bit of googling I came across this: and replaced (A) with (B)

The date field disappeared... (sigh)

What do I need to do to make the date appear in the correct format?

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2 Answers 2

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After looking for ages for the answer to this I stumbled on it minutes after posting this question...

Anyway, the answer is here.

Summary:

  1. Reference the ddwrt namespace at the top of the itemstyle.xls xmlns:ddwrt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebParts/v2/DataView/runtime"

  2. Now you can use the FormatDate function anywhere you like:

<xsl:template name="Default" match="*" mode="itemstyle"> <xsl:value-of select="ddwrt:FormatDate(@ArticleStartDate, 2057, 3)"/> </xsl:template>

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  • Nice tip! Sometimes just writing out the problem is the way to a solution.
    – Marc D Anderson
    Mar 30, 2011 at 15:20
  • Great Post! But Im having hard time implementing on my portal using XsltListViewWebPart <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="PrintFieldWithECB"> <xsl:with-param name="thisNode" select="$thisNode"/> </xsl:apply-templates> where $thisNode = Responded_x0020_On DateTime Type I tried doing the 2 sample but none of them seems to work. <xsl:value-of select="ddwrt:FormatDate(string(@Responded_x0020_On , 2057, 3)" /> <xsl:value-of select="ddwrt:FormatDate(@Responded_x0020_On , 2057, 3)"/> Any idea? Thanks.
    – R2C3
    Apr 26, 2012 at 11:37
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I found this as the easiest way to limit the date field.

 < xsl:variable name="cDate" select="@cDate"></xsl:variable>

 < xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="substring-before($cDate,' ')"></xsl:value-of>
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  • Anonymous user notes that it works if you only want to display date and not the time.
    – SPDoctor
    May 9, 2013 at 21:28

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