Construct a nonNegativeInteger value from an item value.

Related Syntax Constructs

The following construct(s) refer to this construct:

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Syntax

xs:nonNegativeInteger(item $value) => nonNegativeInteger

Description

This is a constructor function that takes an item value as argument and returns a value of type xs:nonNegativeInteger. If the argument is a literal, then the literal must be a valid lexical form of its type.

As specified in the respective section of the W3C recommendation XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes, a value of type xs:negativeInteger represents a negative integer value greater than or equal to zero. It is derived from the type xs:integer. Please refer to the section Derived built-in data types in the Tamino XML Schema User Guide for information about the supported range of values.

Argument

$value	item value

Examples

• This query creates a valid value of type xs:nonNegativeInteger:

  xs:nonNegativeInteger(234)

• This query creates an invalid value:

  xs:nonNegativeInteger(-7)