xf:get-year-from-dateTime

Extracts the year from $dateTime-var.

If the value of $dateTime-var is the empty sequence, the empty sequence is returned. The empty sequence is a sequence containing zero items (), which is similar to null in SQL.

Signatures

xf:get-year-from-dateTime(xs:dateTime? $dateTime-var) —> xs:integer?

Arguments

Data Type
Argument
Description

xs:dateTime?

$dateTime-var

Contains a representation of the date and time.

Returns

Returns the year as an integer from $dateTime-var.

Examples

Simple

When you invoke the following query:

<year>{xf:get-year-from-dateTime("2002-08-30T22:21:01")}</year> 

The preceding query generates the following result:

<year>2002</year> 

Related Topics

W3C get-year-from-dateTime function description.

W3C dateTime data type description.