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:starts-with

fn:starts-with(string? $operand1, string? $operand2) → boolean?

Function signature

$operand1	xs:string ?
$operand2	xs:string ?
Result	xs:boolean ?

Tests whether one string starts with another string

XPath 2.0 Specification

fn:starts-with(string? $operand1, string? $operand2, string $collation) → boolean?

Function signature

$operand1	xs:string ?
$operand2	xs:string ?
$collation	xs:string
Result	xs:boolean ?

Tests whether one string starts with another string, using the given collation for comparison

XPath 2.0 Specification

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