distinct-values

distinct-values($arg as xs:anyAtomicType*) → xs:anyAtomicType*

Arguments
	$arg	xs:anyAtomicType*	The sequence to be de-duplicated
Result		xs:anyAtomicType*

distinct-values($arg as xs:anyAtomicType*, $collation as xs:string) → xs:anyAtomicType*

Arguments
	$arg	xs:anyAtomicType*	The sequence to be de-duplicated
	$collation	xs:string	The collation used for comparing strings
Result		xs:anyAtomicType*

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

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

The current Saxon implementation returns the values in "order of first appearance", but it cannot be assumed that this will always remain the case.