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:boolean

fn:boolean(item* $srcval) → boolean

Function signature

$srcval	item() *
Result	xs:boolean

Obtains the effective boolean value of the supplied argument. The result is true if the argument value is a sequence starting with a node, or the singleton boolean true(), a singleton non-zero number, or a singleton non-zero-length string (or untypedAtomic). The result is false if the argument is an empty sequence, the singleton boolean false, a singleton number zero or NaN, or a singleton zero-length string (or untypedAtomic). In all other cases the result is an error.

XPath 2.0 Specification

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