Have the template below that I use with Xalan. 
Its purpose is to read a date string in one format and convert to another
format. But if/when the input data does not match the input format an
exception is thrown and the entire translation stops. Is there a way to
catch the exception ?  

  <xsl:template name="dateReformatter"
xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/xslt/java"> 
     <xsl:param name="inputDate"/> 
     <xsl:param name="inputFormat" /> 
     <xsl:param name="outputFormat"/> 
     <xsl:message> in date</xsl:message>

    <xsl:choose> 
    <xsl:when test="function-available(
'java:java.text.SimpleDateFormat.parse' )"> 
    <xsl:message> doing date</xsl:message>
    <xsl:variable name="informatter"       
        select="java:java.text.SimpleDateFormat.new($inputFormat)"/> 

    <xsl:variable name="date"       
        select="java:parse($informatter, $inputDate)"/> 

    <xsl:variable name="outformatter"       
        select="java:java.text.SimpleDateFormat.new( $outputFormat )"/> 

    <xsl:variable name="outdate"       
        select="java:format($outformatter, $date)"/> 

    <xsl:value-of select="$outdate"/> 
    </xsl:when> 
    <xsl:otherwise> 
         No Date
    </xsl:otherwise> 
    </xsl:choose> 
 </xsl:template> 


Bill Riegel
LandMark Graphics
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