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month-from-date
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The month portion of a date

Description
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The fn:month-from-date function returns the month portion of an xs:date value, 
as an integer between 1 and 12 inclusive.

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

Examples
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   * - **XPath**
     - **Results**
   * - month-from-date(xs:date('2006-08-15'))
     - 8

See Also
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* :ref:`month-from-dateTime`.
* :ref:`functx_month-abbrev-en`.
* :ref:`functx_month-name-en`.