fn:years-from-duration - XPath XQuery Reference

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XPath/XQuery years-from-duration function

Summary

Returns the number of years in a duration.

Signature

fn:years-from-duration(

$arg as xs:duration?

) as xs:integer?

Properties

This function is deterministic, context-independent, and focus-independent.

Rules

If $arg is the empty sequence, the function returns the empty sequence.

Otherwise, the function returns an xs:integer representing the years component in the value of $arg. Given that a duration is a ($months, $seconds) tuple, the result is the value of ($months idiv 12) .

If $arg is a negative duration then the result will be negative.

If $arg is an xs:dayTimeDuration the function returns 0.

The expression fn:years-from-duration(xs:yearMonthDuration("P20Y15M")) returns 21.

The expression fn:years-from-duration(xs:yearMonthDuration("-P15M")) returns -1.

The expression fn:years-from-duration(xs:dayTimeDuration("-P2DT15H")) returns 0.