starts-with

starts-with($arg1 as xs:string?, $arg2 as xs:string?) → xs:boolean

Arguments
	$arg1	xs:string?	The containing string
	$arg2	xs:string?	The supposed initial part of the string
Result		xs:boolean

starts-with($arg1 as xs:string?, $arg2 as xs:string?, $collation as xs:string) → xs:boolean

Arguments
	$arg1	xs:string?	The containing string
	$arg2	xs:string?	The supposed initial part of the string
	$collation	xs:string	The collation to be used for comparing characters
Result		xs:boolean

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

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