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functx:day-of-week-name-en

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

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Description

The functx:day-of-week-name-en function calculates the day of the week of $date. It returns the English name of the day, e.g. "Sunday", "Monday", 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-name-en
  ( $date as xs:anyAtomicType? )  as xs:string? {

   ('Sunday', 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday',
    'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday')
      [functx:day-of-week($date) + 1]
 } ;

Examples

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

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-abbrev-enThe abbreviated 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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