Name
[2.0] day-from-date()
Given an xs:date
value, returns its day value.
Syntax
xs:integer?day-from-date(
xs:date?
)
Input
An xs:date
value.
Output
An xs:integer
representing the day component of the given xs:date
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 day-from-date()
function:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <!-- day-from-date.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 day from an xs:date:</xsl:text> <xsl:variable name="currentDate" as="xs:date" select="current-date()"/> <xsl:text>

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

 The current day: </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="day-from-date($currentDate)"/> <xsl:text>
 In words: </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="format-date($currentDate, '[DWw]')"/> <xsl:text>
 In German: </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="format-date($currentDate, '[Dw]', 'de', (), ())"/> <xsl:text>
 It's the </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="format-date($currentDate, '[dwo]')"/> <xsl:text> day of the year.</xsl:text> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>
The stylesheet creates these results:
Extracting the day from an xs:date: ...
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