String to Date Conversion in XSLT

This blog might be handy for you for quick date conversion from string to date. Like in our source is String DD-MON-YYYY format and I want to convert it to YYYY-MM-DD for making the JCA adapter recognize the same during updation in oracle table.I didn’t find out any in built function is available so I decided to use simple sql query in xslt.

I just used query-database function and sql query is constructed using string concatenation.

and if you look at the database function ,

and whole sqlquery is concat("select to_char(to_date('",/ns0:arrivalDate,"','DD-MON-YYYY'),'YYYY-MM-DD') arrivalDate from dual")

handy for me as well for future reference.