idref

Finds the nodes that link to the element with a given ID value. These will be element or attribute nodes marked by virtue of schema or DTD validation as IDREF or IDREFS values.

idref($arg as xs:string*) ➔ node()*

Arguments
	$arg	xs:string*	The ID value being sought
Result		node()*

idref($arg as xs:string*, $node as node()) ➔ node()*

Arguments
	$arg	xs:string*	The ID value being sought
	$node	node()	The document in which the search takes place
Result		node()*

Links to W3C specifications

Namespace: http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions

Applies to: XPath 2.0, XSLT 2.0, XQuery 1.0 and later versions

XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators

XPath 3.0 Functions and Operators

Notes on the Saxon implementation

Some external object models do not provide information about ID attributes; in such cases this function will always return an empty sequence. In particular, this is true when the object model is a DOM.