type-available
type-available($type as xs:string) → xs:boolean
Arguments | |||
| $type | xs:string | The name of the required type, as a lexical QName |
Result | xs:boolean | ||
Links to W3C specifications
Namespace: http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions
Applies to: XSLT 2.0 and later versions
Notes on the Saxon implementation
The Saxon implementation has a minor restriction: if the argument is known only at run-time, then the function tests whether the type exists in the run-time configuration, which does not necessarily prove that it was present in the static context.
In Saxon the type-available() function can be used to check for the availability of Java classes. For example
type-available('jt:java.util.HashMap') returns true, where the prefix jt is bound to the URI
http://saxon.sf.net/java-type.