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functx:day-of-week-abbrev-en
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The abbreviated day of the week, from a date, in English

Description
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The functx:day-of-week-abbrev-en function calculates the day of the week of 
$date. It returns the English abbreviation of the day, e.g. "Sun", "Mon", etc.

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:string()
     - the date

Examples
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   * - **XPath**
     - **Results**
   * - functx:day-of-week-abbrev-en(xs:date('2004-11-04'))
     - Thurs
   * - functx:day-of-week-abbrev-en('2004-11-04')
     - Thurs

Depends On
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* :ref:`functx_day-of-week`.

See Also
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* :ref:`functx_day-of-week`.
* :ref:`functx_day-of-week-name-en`.