Re: An empty sequence is not allowed as the first arg

ck:std-date-string-fmt(if empty($x) then '1961-07-09' else $x)

would work, or type the argument to your function as xs:string? the
question mark would allow the argument to be an empty sequence (or you
could use and allow 0-0r-mpre strings)

David

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