format-date

format-date($value as xs:date?, $picture as xs:string) → xs:string?

Arguments
	$value	xs:date?	The date to be formatted
	$picture	xs:string	Picture showing how the date is to be formatted
Result		xs:string?

format-date($value as xs:date?, $picture as xs:string, $language as xs:string?, $calendar as xs:string?, $place as xs:string?) → xs:string?

Arguments
	$value	xs:date?	The date to be formatted
	$picture	xs:string	Picture showing how the date is to be formatted
	$language	xs:string?	The language for the output
	$calendar	xs:string?	The calendar for the output
	$place	xs:string?	The country or Olson timezone associated with the event
Result		xs:string?

Namespace: http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions

Applies to: XPath 2.0, XSLT 2.0, XQuery 1.0 and later versions