min

Returns the lowest value in a sequence of comparable items

min($arg as xs:anyAtomicType*) ➔ xs:anyAtomicType?

Arguments

 

$arg

xs:anyAtomicType*

The input sequence

Result

xs:anyAtomicType?

min($arg as xs:anyAtomicType*, $collation as xs:string) ➔ xs:anyAtomicType?

Arguments

 

$arg

xs:anyAtomicType*

The input sequence

 

$collation

xs:string

The collation to be used when comparing strings

Result

xs:anyAtomicType?

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

Fully implemented. Saxon also (for compatibility) implements the function math:min() in namespace http://exslt.org/math