Construct a short value from an item value.

Related Syntax Constructs

The following construct(s) refer to this construct:

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Syntax

xs:short(item $value) => short

Description

This is a constructor function that takes an item value as argument and returns a value of type xs:short. 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, xs:short is a subtype derived from xs:int. The lexical representation is the set of numerical values in the range from -32768 to 32767. If no sign is used, "+" is assumed.

Argument

$value	item value

Examples

• The following queries construct valid values of type xs:short:

  xs:short(44)

  xs:short(-23)

  xs:short(-0)

• The following queries do not construct valid values of type xs:short:

  xs:short(34400)

  xs:short(-+0)