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:string

fn:string() → string

Function signature

Result

xs:string

Returns the string value of the context node

XPath 2.0 Specification

fn:string(item()? $srcval) → string

Function signature

$srcval	item() ?
Result	xs:string

Returns the string value of the argument. Saxon implements the argument as type item()* rather than item()?

XPath 2.0 Specification

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