functx:previous-day

The previous day

Description

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.

Parameters

Description

date:date()

the date

Examples

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

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