.. _functx_previous-day:

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functx:previous-day
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The previous day

Description
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The functx:previous-day function takes a date and returns a date representing 
the previous day.

The $date argument must be castable to xs:date, meaning that it must have the 
type xs:date or xs:dateTime, or be an xs:string or untyped value of the form 
YYYY-MM-DD.

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   * - **Parameters**
     - **Description**
   * - date:date()
     - the date

Examples
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   * - **XPath**
     - **Results**
   * - functx:previous-day(xs:date('2004-01-23'))
     - 2004-01-22
   * - functx:previous-day(xs:dateTime('2005-01-01T12:00:13'))
     - 2004-12-31

See Also
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* :ref:`functx_next-day`.