Saxon Documentation

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About Saxon

Changes in this Release

Notices

Using XSLT 2.0

Using XQuery

Handling Source Documents

XML Schema Processing

XPath API for Java

Saxon on .NET

Extensibility

Saxon Extensions

Sample Saxon Applications

The Saxon SQL Extension

XSLT Elements

XPath 2.0 Expression Syntax
	Introduction
	Constants
	Variable References
	Function Calls
	Axis steps
	Parentheses and operator precedence
	Filter expressions
	Path expressions
	Cast as, Treat as
	Set difference and intersection
	Union
	Arithmetic expressions
	Range expressions
	Comparisons
	Instance of and Castable as
	Conditional Expressions
	Quantified Expressions
	For Expressions
	Boolean expressions: AND and OR
»	Sequence expressions

Function Library

Standards Conformance

Sequence expressions

The expression E1 , E2 returns the sequence obtained by concatenating the sequences E1 and E2.

For example, $x = ("London", "Paris", "Tokyo") returns true if the value of $x is one of the strings listed.