Hi there,



I am writing my thesis and my professor wants me to use the APA style. Here I have the problem, that it shows dates like this "DD. MM YYYY" However, I want it to be "DD.MM.YYYY".

Somehow it not only uses spaces in general, there is this single dot after the date. why?

I have looked through the xml file but just cant find the exact problem. In the Harvard xml, it was easy because i just needed to change "spaces" to "dot"-tempates. Here, however, they seem to use a recursive style and I have no clue, where I need to make changes.

I would very grateful if anyone could help me!



Here is the original code from the part, where i believe the "spaces" and "dots" are put.

the parameters are:
format: which is either MY or DMY (depending if date is put or not)
day, month and year: are the data of souce,
withDot is initially not set (at least I cant find it anywhere)




<xsl:template name="StringFormatDate">
<xsl:param name="format" />

<xsl:param name="day"/>
<xsl:param name="month"/>
<xsl:param name="year"/>

<xsl:param name="withDot" />

<xsl:variable name="prop_EndChars">
<xsl:call-template name="templ_prop_EndChars"/>
</xsl:variable>

<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$format = ''"></xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="substring($format, 1, 2) = '%%'">
<xsl:text>%</xsl:text>
<xsl:call-template name="StringFormatDate">
<xsl:with-param name="format" select="substring($format, 3)" />
<xsl:with-param name="day" select="$day"/>
<xsl:with-param name="month" select="$month"/>
<xsl:with-param name="year" select="$year"/>
<xsl:with-param name="withDot" select="$withDot" />
</xsl:call-template>
<xsl:if test="string-length($format)=2 and withDot = 'yes' and not(contains($prop_EndChars, '%'))">
<xsl:call-template name="templ_prop_Dot"/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="substring($format, 1, 1) = '%'">
<xsl:variable name="what" select="substring($format, 2, 1)" />
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$what = 'D'">
<xsl:value-of select="$day"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$what = 'M'">
<xsl:value-of select="$month"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$what = 'Y'">
<xsl:value-of select="$year"/>
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
<xsl:call-template name="StringFormatDate">
<xsl:with-param name="format" select="substring($format, 3)" />
<xsl:with-param name="day" select="$day"/>
<xsl:with-param name="month" select="$month"/>
<xsl:with-param name="year" select="$year"/>
<xsl:with-param name="withDot" select="$withDot" />
</xsl:call-template>
<xsl:if test="string-length($format)=2 and withDot='yes'">
<xsl:variable name="temp2">
<xsl:call-template name="handleSpaces">
<xsl:with-param name="field">
<xsl:call-template name="formatNameOneItem">
<xsl:with-param name="format" select="$what"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="lastChar">
<xsl:value-of select="substring($temp2, string-length($temp2))"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:if test="not(contains($prop_EndChars, $lastChar))">
<xsl:call-template name="templ_prop_Dot"/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="substring($format, 1, 1)" />
<xsl:call-template name="StringFormatDate">
<xsl:with-param name="format" select="substring($format, 2)" />
<xsl:with-param name="day" select="$day"/>
<xsl:with-param name="month" select="$month"/>
<xsl:with-param name="year" select="$year"/>
<xsl:with-param name="withDot" select="$withDot" />
</xsl:call-template>
<xsl:if test="string-length($format)=1">
<xsl:if test="withDot = 'yes' and not(contains($prop_EndChars, $format))">
<xsl:call-template name="templ_prop_Dot"/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>