functx:day-of-week
The day of the week, from a date
Description
The functx:day-of-week function returns the day of the week of $date as a number, where 0 is Sunday, 1 is Monday, 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.
Parameters |
Description |
|---|---|
date:date() |
the date |
Examples
XPath |
Results |
Explanation |
|---|---|---|
functx:day-of-week(xs:date(‘2004-11-04’)) |
4 |
Thursday |
functx:day-of-week(xs:dateTime(‘2004-11-04T12:00:13’)) |
4 |
Thursday |
functx:day-of-week(‘2004-11-04’) |
4 |
Thursday |