fn:default-collation

Returns the name of the default collation. If no collation has been set explicitly this will be the URI of the Unicode codepoint collation.

default-collation() ➔ xs:string

Namespace

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

Links to W3C specifications

XPath 3.1 Functions and Operators

Notes on the Saxon implementation

Various Saxon APIs allow the default collation to be set for a transformation or query. It is also possible to set this from the command line, by using the option --defaultCollation.