Name
[2.0]
hours-from-dateTime()
Given an xs:dateTime
value, returns its
hours
value.
Syntax
xs:integer?hours-from-dateTime(
xs:dateTime?
)
Inputs
An xs:dateTime
value.
Output
An xs:integer
representing the hours component of the given xs:dateTime
value. If the input argument
is the empty sequence, this function returns the empty
sequence.
Defined in
XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators section 10.5, “Component Extraction Functions on Durations, Dates and Times.”
Example
This stylesheet demonstrates the hours-from-dateTime()
function:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <!-- hours-from-datetime.xsl --> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <xsl:output method="text"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:text>
Extracting the hour from an xs:dateTime:</xsl:text> <xsl:variable name="currentDateTime" as="xs:dateTime" select="current-dateTime()"/> <xsl:text>

 The current date and time is: </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="$currentDateTime"/> <xsl:text>

 The current hour is: </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="hours-from-dateTime($currentDateTime)"/> <xsl:text>
 Also known as </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="format-dateTime($currentDateTime, '[h] [Pn]')"/> <xsl:text>
 or </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="format-dateTime($currentDateTime, '[H] [ZN]')"/> <xsl:text>
 or </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="format-dateTime($currentDateTime, '[H] [z]')"/> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>
The stylesheet ...
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