Altova MapForce 2025 Enterprise Edition

Returns the Excel representation of the date value extracted from the source, as a serial number that represents the date. By default, in Microsoft Excel for Windows, January the 1st, 1900 is serial number 1.

mf-func-date-to-xlsx

 

Languages

Built-in, C#, Java, XSLT 2.0, XSLT 3.0.

 

Parameters

Name

Type

Description

date

xs:date

The input date value.

 

Example

The following mapping converts the string "1900-01-01" to a date, with the help of the parse-date function. The obtained xs:date value (January the 1st, 1900) is then supplied as argument to the date-to-xlsx function, which returns its numerical representation and writes it to an Excel cell. The resulting cell value is 1, as expected.

mf-func-xlsx-to-date-example

Note that the format of the target Excel cell is "Numeric". If you right-click the cell in Excel and format it as a date using the Format Cells command, the cell value becomes 1/1/1900.

 

 

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