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:distinct-values

fn:distinct-values( xs:anyAtomicType* $srcval) → xs:anyAtomicType*

Function signature

$srcval	xs:anyAtomicType *
Result	xs:anyAtomicType *

Returns the set of distinct values present in a given sequence. The current Saxon implementation returns the values in "order of first appearance", but it cannot be assumed that this will always remain the case.

XPath 2.0 Specification

fn:distinct-values( xs:anyAtomicType* $srcval, string $collation) → xs:anyAtomicType*

Function signature

$srcval	xs:anyAtomicType *
$collation	string
Result	xs:anyAtomicType *

Returns the set of distinct values present in a given sequence, comparing strings using a named collation. The current Saxon implementation returns the values in "order of first appearance", but it cannot be assumed that this will always remain the case.

XPath 2.0 Specification