Saxon Documentation

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About Saxon

Changes in this Release

Licensing

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:compare

fn:compare(string? $comparand1, string? $comparand2) → integer?

Function signature

$comparand1	xs:string ?
$comparand2	xs:string ?
Result	xs:integer ?

Compares two strings using the default collation

XPath 2.0 Specification

fn:compare(string? $comparand1, string? $comparand2, string $collation) → integer?

Function signature

$comparand1	xs:string ?
$comparand2	xs:string ?
$collation	xs:string
Result	xs:integer ?

Compares two strings using a specified collation

XPath 2.0 Specification

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