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functx:day-of-week-abbrev-en

The abbreviated day of the week, from a date, in English

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Description

The functx:day-of-week-abbrev-en function calculates the day of the week of $date. It returns the English abbreviation of the day, e.g. "Sun", "Mon", etc.

The $date argument must be castable to xs:date, meaning that it must have the type xs:date or xs:dateTime, or be an xs:string or untyped value of the form YYYY-MM-DD.

Arguments and Return Type

NameTypeDescription
$date xs:anyAtomicType? the date
return value xs:string?

XQuery Function Declaration

See XSLT definition.
declare namespace functx = "http://www.functx.com";
declare function functx:day-of-week-abbrev-en
  ( $date as xs:anyAtomicType? )  as xs:string? {

   ('Sun', 'Mon', 'Tues', 'Wed', 'Thurs', 'Fri', 'Sat')
   [functx:day-of-week($date) + 1]
 } ;

Examples

XQuery ExampleResults
functx:day-of-week-abbrev-en(
     xs:date('2004-11-04'))
Thurs
functx:day-of-week-abbrev-en('2004-11-04')
Thurs

Depends On

functx:day-of-weekThe day of the week, from a date

See Also

functx:day-of-weekThe day of the week, from a date
functx:day-of-week-name-enThe name of the day of the week, from a date, in English

History

Published OnLast UpdatedContributor(s)
2006-06-272007-02-26Priscilla Walmsley, Datypic, pwalmsley@datypic.com, http://www.datypic.com
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