xs:Name

Construct a Name value from an item value.

Related Syntax Constructs

The following construct(s) refer to this construct:

[ Syntax | Description | Argument | Example ]

Syntax

xs:Name(item $value) => Name

Description

This is a constructor function that takes an item value as argument and returns a value of type xs:Name. 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:Name denotes an XML name, as defined in the XML 1.0 recommendation. It is derived from the type xs:token and the lexical form of xs:Name is the set of all strings that match the production of Name.

Argument

$value	item value

Example

The following queries generate valid values of type xs:Name:
```
xs:Name("_header")
```
```
xs:Name("R2D2:C3PO")
```
The following queries generate invalid values:
```
xs:Name("-header")
```
```
xs:Name("1A")
```