Construct a negativeInteger value from an item value.

Related Syntax Constructs

The following construct(s) refer to this construct:

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Syntax

xs:negativeInteger(item $value) => negativeInteger

Description

This is a constructor function that takes an item value as argument and returns a value of type xs:negativeInteger. 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 an integer value less than zero. It is derived from the type xs:nonPositiveInteger. 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:negativeInteger:

  xs:negativeInteger(-234)

• This query does not create a valid value of type xs:negativeInteger:

  xs:negativeInteger(0)