Saxon Documentation

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About Saxon

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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:max

fn:max(xs:anyAtomicType* $srcval) → xs:anyAtomicType?

Function signature

$srcval	xs:anyAtomicType *
Result	xs:anyAtomicType ?

Returns the highest value in a sequence of comparable items

XPath 2.0 Specification

fn:max(xs:anyAtomicType* $srcval, string $collation) → xs:anyAtomicType?

Function signature

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

Returns the highest value in a sequence of strings, using a specified collation to perform the comparisons

XPath 2.0 Specification

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