<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><api:function-page xml:base="/apidoc/8.0/cts.period.xml" generated="2015-10-07T16:36:00.016766-07:00" mode="javascript" xmlns:api="http://marklogic.com/rundmc/api"><api:function-name>cts.period</api:function-name><api:suggest>cts.period</api:suggest><api:suggest>cts</api:suggest><api:suggest>period</api:suggest><api:function-link mode="xquery" fullname="cts:period">/apidoc/8.0/cts:period.xml</api:function-link><api:function mode="javascript" name="period" type="builtin" lib="cts" category="SearchBuiltins" subcategory="Temporal" hidden="false" bucket="MarkLogic Built-In Functions" prefix="cts" namespace="http://marklogic.com/cts" fullname="cts.period"><api:summary>
  Creates a period value, for use as a parameter to cts:period-range-query
  or cts:period-compare-query.
</api:summary><api:params><api:param name="start" type="xs:dateTime"><api:param-description>
    The dateTime value indicating start of the period.
  </api:param-description><api:param-name>start</api:param-name><api:param-type>Date</api:param-type></api:param><api:param name="end" type="xs:dateTime"><api:param-description>
    The dateTime value indicating end of the period.
  </api:param-description><api:param-name>end</api:param-name><api:param-type>Date</api:param-type></api:param></api:params><api:return>cts.period</api:return><api:example class="javascript"><pre xml:space="preserve" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
cts.period( xs.dateTime("1990-01-01T00:00:00Z"), 
            xs.dateTime("2000-01-01T00:00:00Z"));

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