Construct a token value from an item value.

Related Syntax Constructs

The following construct(s) refer to this construct:

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Syntax

xs:token(item $value) => token

Description

This is a constructor function that takes an item value as argument and returns a value of type xs:token. 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:token represents an XML token value. It is derived from the type xs:normalizedString and the lexical form of xs:token is the set of all white space normalized strings that do not contain the carriage return, line feed and tab characters.

Argument

$value	item value

Example

• This query creates a valid value of type xs:normalizedString that has only one space character between "deep" and "space":

  xs:token("deep
      space  ")