Construct an ENTITY value from an item value.
xs:ENTITY(item $value) => ENTITY
This is a constructor function that takes an item value as argument and
returns a value of type xs:ENTITY. 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:ENTITY
denotes an entity, as defined in the
XML 1.0 recommendation. It is derived from the type
xs:NCName and the lexical form of xs:ENTITY is the
set of all strings that match the production of
NCName.
| $value |
item value |
|---|
The following queries generate valid values of type
xs:ENTITY
xs:ENTITY("_header")
xs:ENTITY("R2D2")
The following queries generate invalid values of type
xs:ENTITY
xs:ENTITY("-header")
xs:ENTITY("1A")
The following construct(s) refer to this construct: