Name
[2.0]
day-from-dateTime()
Given an xs:dateTime
value, returns its day
value.
Syntax
xs:integer?day-from-dateTime(
xs:dateTime?
)
Inputs
An xs:dateTime
value.
Output
An xs:integer
representing the day 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 day-from-dateTime()
function:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <!-- day-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 day 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 day: </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="day-from-dateTime($currentDateTime)"/> <xsl:text>
 In words: </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="format-dateTime($currentDateTime, '[DWw]')"/> <xsl:text>
 In German words: </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="format-dateTime($currentDateTime, '[Dw]', 'de', (), ())"/> <xsl:text>
 It's the </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="format-dateTime($currentDateTime, '[dwo]')"/> <xsl:text> day of the year.</xsl:text> </xsl:template> ...
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