fn:outermost

Given a sequence of nodes, returns those nodes in the sequence that have no ancestor that is also in the sequence.

outermost($seq as node()*) ➔ node()*

Arguments
	$seq	node()*	The input sequence
Result		node()*

Namespace

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

Links to W3C specifications

XPath 3.0 Functions and Operators

Notes on the Saxon implementation

Available since Saxon 9.5.