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functx:date

Construct a date from a year, month and day

Description

The functx:date function constructs an xs:date value from arguments representing the year, month and day. The arguments can have any type that can be cast to xs:integer. If the combination does not result in a valid date (e.g. the day is 32 or the month is 13), an error is raised.

Arguments and Return Type

Name	Type	Description
`$year`	`xs:anyAtomicType`	the year
`$month`	`xs:anyAtomicType`	the month
`$day`	`xs:anyAtomicType`	the day
return value	`xs:date`

XQuery Function Declaration

XQuery Syntax for January 2007 (1.0):
See XSLT definition.
declare namespace functx = "http://www.functx.com"; declare function functx:date ( $year as xs:anyAtomicType , $month as xs:anyAtomicType , $day as xs:anyAtomicType ) as xs:date { xs:date( concat( functx:pad-integer-to-length(xs:integer($year),4),'-', functx:pad-integer-to-length(xs:integer($month),2),'-', functx:pad-integer-to-length(xs:integer($day),2))) } ;
XQuery Syntax for July 2004 - November 2005 (CR):
declare namespace functx = "http://www.functx.com"; declare function functx:date ( $year as xdt:anyAtomicType , $month as xdt:anyAtomicType , $day as xdt:anyAtomicType ) as xs:date { xs:date( concat( functx:pad-integer-to-length(xs:integer($year),4),'-', functx:pad-integer-to-length(xs:integer($month),2),'-', functx:pad-integer-to-length(xs:integer($day),2))) } ;
XQuery Syntax for May 2003:
declare namespace functx = "http://www.functx.com" define function date ( $year as xdt:anyAtomicType , $month as xdt:anyAtomicType , $day as xdt:anyAtomicType ) as xs:date { xs:date( fn:concat( functx:pad-integer-to-length(xs:integer($year),4),'-', functx:pad-integer-to-length(xs:integer($month),2),'-', functx:pad-integer-to-length(xs:integer($day),2))) }