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

XPath 3.1 Functions and Operators

Notes on the Saxon implementation

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