[XALANJ-2099] EXSLT date:day-abbreviation outputs text in user's language instead of English

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.6
• Fix Version/s: 2.7
• Component/s: Xalan-extensions
• Security Level: No security risk; visible to anyone (Ordinary problems in Xalan projects. Anybody can view the issue.)
• Xalan info: PatchAvailable
• Fix priority: fp4
• Assignee: Morris Kwan
• Reporter: Litrik De Roy
• Reviewer: Sarah McNamara
• Created: 14/Apr/05 04:12
• Updated: 21/Aug/05 04:54
• Resolved: 16/Jul/05 06:46

Description

According to the EXSLT doc the extension date:day-abbreviation() should output a three-letter English day abbreviation: one of 'Sun', 'Mon', 'Tue', 'Wed', 'Thu' or 'Fri'. (See http://exslt.org/date/functions/day-abbreviation/index.html)

Xalan 2.6.2 however does not output English but the current user's language.

This is very easy to reproduce:

The following three commands should all produce the same output but they don't:

java -Djava.endorsed.dirs=. -Duser.language=nl -jar xalan.jar -IN input.xml -XSL exslt-date.xsl
java -Djava.endorsed.dirs=. -Duser.language=fr -jar xalan.jar -IN input.xml -XSL exslt-date.xsl
java -Djava.endorsed.dirs=. -Duser.language=en -jar xalan.jar -IN input.xml -XSL exslt-date.xsl