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functx:month-abbrev-en

The month of a date as an abbreviated word (Jan, Feb, etc.)

Description

The functx:month-abbrev-en function returns the month of $date as an abbreviated xs:string in English, as in "Jan", "Feb", 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.

Arguments and Return Type

XQuery Function Declaration

declare namespace functx = "http://www.functx.com";
declare function functx:month-abbrev-en
  ( $date as xs:anyAtomicType? )  as xs:string? {

   ('Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun',
    'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec')
    [month-from-date(xs:date($date))]
 } ;

Examples

functx:month-abbrev-en(xs:date('2004-01-23'))

Jan

functx:month-abbrev-en(
     xs:dateTime('2004-01-23T12:00:13'))

Jan

functx:month-abbrev-en('2004-01-23')

Jan

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