SAXONICA

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

Function Library

Standards Conformance

fn:abs

fn:abs(numeric? $srcval) → numeric?

Function signature

$srcval	numeric ?
Result	numeric ?

Returns the absolute value of a given number. Returns the same type as the supplied argument.

XPath 2.0 Specification

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