functx:month-name-en
The month of a date as a word (January, February, etc.)
Description
The functx:month-name-en function returns the month of $date as an xs:string in English, as in “January”, “February”, 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 |
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date:date() |
the date |
Examples
XPath |
Results |
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functx:month-name-en(xs:date(‘2004-01-23’)) |
January |
functx:month-name-en(xs:dateTime(‘2004-01-23T12:00:13’)) |
January |
functx:month-name-en(‘2004-01-23’) |
January |