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:substring

fn:substring(string? $sourceString, double $startingLoc) → string?

Function signature

$sourceString	xs:string ?
$startingLoc	xs:double
Result	xs:string ?

Returns a substring of a given string starting at the given starting position and continuing to the end of the string

XPath 2.0 Specification

fn:substring(string? $sourceString, double $startingLoc, double $length) → string?

Function signature

$sourceString	xs:string ?
$startingLoc	xs:double
$length	xs:double
Result	xs:string ?

Returns a subtring of a given string, starting at a given position and continuing up to a given length

XPath 2.0 Specification

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