xs:gMonthDay

Construct a gMonthDay value from an item value.

Related Syntax Constructs

The following construct(s) refer to this construct:

[ Syntax | Description | Argument | Example ]

Syntax

xs:gMonthDay(item $value) => gMonthDay

Description

This is a constructor function that takes an item value as argument and returns a value of type xs:gMonthDay. 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:gMonthDay represents a recurring Gregorian day of the month as defined in ISO 8601. The lexical form is --MM-DD, where "MM" denotes the month, and "DD" denotes the day. You can append an optional time zone identifier. You may not omit any of the dashes.

Argument

$value	item value

Example

This query generates valid values of type xs:gMonthDay:
```
xs:gMonthDay("--04-23")
```
```
xs:gMonthDay("--04-23Z")
```
```
xs:gMonthDay("--04-23-01:00")
```
The last two queries use optional time zone identifiers: "Z" denoting UTC, and "-01:00" one hour past UTC.