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That is not a possibility, WFS provides no type mutation of any sort: it's completely driven by the XML schema it exposes in DescribeFeatureType, every other request has to abide to it.
You'll have to perform the casting somewhere else, e.g., at the data source level for example (if it's a database, you can try using a SQL View).
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