https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/rules/10609/parse-xml-to-cdtHi All, We are trying to parse XML to CDT using xpathsnippet function and we are successful in converting &quot;Text&quot; data types from XML. When we try to convert date time fields from XML, it is getting converted as &quot;Text&quot;. How to convert this text backen-USTelligent Community 12https://community.appian.com/thread/46314?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 22 Jun 2017 13:50:14 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:8707d0ea-348a-4a48-9701-b33a5db190a0Leela Venkata VundavalliSee if this helps you.<br /> <a href="https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/17.2/Function_Recipes.html#convert-an-xml-string-into-a-value-of-type-datetime">docs.appian.com/.../Function_Recipes.html</a><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/46313?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 22 Jun 2017 13:25:10 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:e416e110-3431-49ca-8973-2cf458043532reginaldm377you may want to use datetime() in conjunction with either gmt() or local() to get what you want<div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/46308?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 22 Jun 2017 11:15:17 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:0745129f-d336-4f8e-9777-82ff7c4a3119Karthigha KailasamThanks for the reply. I want to display date and time with timezone format, when i try that with &quot;Text&quot; function, it&#39;s showing incorrect values.<div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/46303?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 22 Jun 2017 10:08:45 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:ca5bf50f-cda1-437b-bbb1-d902c371eb88bhanuprakashmHi,<br /> <br /> you can use text(ri!date,&quot;dd-MMM-YYYY&quot;) format..<br /> <br /> Hope it will help to you.<div style="clear:both;"></div>