Sydney is building an application with XSLT 2.0 that relies on many date formats and calculations. He comes to you for some assistance in developing these formats and calculations correctly.
-Sydney would like to add the current date to the top of the output in the format "September 7, 2017". Which of the following functions do you recommend he use to achieve this formatting correctly?
A) format-date(current-date() ,'[MN] [D] [Y]')
B) format-date(current-date() ,'[MNn] [D] [Y]')
C) format-date(current-date() ,'[Mn] [D] [Y]')
D) format-date(current-date() ,'[MNn] [D,2] [Y]')

Question

Sydney is building an application with XSLT 2.0 that relies on many date formats and calculations. He comes to you for some assistance in developing these formats and calculations correctly. 
-Sydney would like to add the current date to the top of the output in the format "September 7, 2017". Which of the following functions do you recommend he use to achieve this formatting correctly?
A) format-date(current-date() ,'[MN] [D] [Y]')
B) format-date(current-date() ,'[MNn] [D] [Y]')
C) format-date(current-date() ,'[Mn] [D] [Y]')
D) format-date(current-date() ,'[MNn] [D,2] [Y]')

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Option B will provide the desired date format of "September 7, 2017" with the use of the format-date function and the specific format string '[MNn] [D] [Y]'. The '[MNn]' will provide the month name in full text with the first letter in lowercase, '[D]' will provide the day without leading zeros, and '[Y]' will provide the year in four digits. Option A uses '[MN]' which provides the month name in full text but capitalizes the first letter. Option C uses '[Mn]' which provides the month name as an abbreviation with the first letter capitalized. Option D uses '[MNn]' for the month name in lowercase but also includes a comma after the day with a length of 2 characters which is not necessary for the desired output.

Sydney Is Building an Application with XSLT 2