exslt-common:object-type
Originally defined as an EXSLT extension to XSLT 1.0, to determine the type of a value.
object-type($arg as item()*) ➔ item()*
Arguments | |||
| $arg | item()* | The value whose type is required |
Result | item()* | ||
Details
Namespace: http://exslt.org/common
Notes on the Saxon implementation
This function is retained in Saxon for backwards compatibility because it is encountered in XSLT 1.0 stylesheets, however
it has not caught up with the richness of the new types introduced in XPath 2.0 and XPath 3.0. The input can be any
sequence, and the output is a string representation of the item type of the sequence (ignoring the cardinality). If the input corresponds
to one of the XPath 1.0 types node-set, string, boolean, or number, then the result is
one of those four strings (number covers
integer, decimal, float, and double); otherwise it is a string representation
of the actual item type of the input.