<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><api:function-page xml:base="/apidoc/8.0/cts.referenceScalarType.xml" generated="2015-10-07T16:36:00.016766-07:00" mode="javascript" xmlns:api="http://marklogic.com/rundmc/api"><api:function-name>cts.referenceScalarType</api:function-name><api:suggest>cts.referencescalartype</api:suggest><api:suggest>cts</api:suggest><api:suggest>referencescalartype</api:suggest><api:function-link mode="xquery" fullname="cts:reference-scalar-type">/apidoc/8.0/cts:reference-scalar-type.xml</api:function-link><api:function mode="javascript" name="referenceScalarType" type="builtin" lib="cts" category="SearchBuiltins" subcategory="Lexicon" hidden="false" bucket="MarkLogic Built-In Functions" prefix="cts" namespace="http://marklogic.com/cts" fullname="cts.referenceScalarType"><api:summary>
  Accessor for the scalar type of a reference to a value lexicon.
</api:summary><api:params><api:param name="index" type="cts:reference"><api:param-description>
    The value lexicon reference, as created from cts:element-reference, 
    for example.</api:param-description><api:param-name>index</api:param-name><api:param-type>cts.reference</api:param-type></api:param></api:params><api:return>String</api:return><api:example class="javascript"><pre xml:space="preserve" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
cts.referenceScalarType(cts.elementReference(xs.QName("TITLE")));
=&gt;
"string"
</pre></api:example></api:function></api:function-page>