fn:max

Returns the highest value in a sequence of comparable items.

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

Arguments
	$arg	xs:anyAtomicType*	The input sequence
Result		xs:anyAtomicType?

max($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?

Namespace

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

Links to W3C specifications

XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators

XPath 3.0 Functions and Operators

Notes on the Saxon implementation

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