Construct an string value from an item value.

Related Syntax Constructs

The following construct(s) refer to this construct:

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Syntax

xs:string(item $value) => string

Description

This is a constructor function that takes an item value as argument and returns a value of type xs:string. 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:string represents a set of finite-length sequences of characters that match the production of Char, as defined in the XML 1.0 recommendation. Every character has a corresponding Universal Character Set code point.

Argument

$value	item value

Example

• This query constructs a valid string value:

  xs:string("!#$%&'()*+/;@^_")