fn:idref

Finds the nodes that link to the element with a given ID value. These will be element or attribute nodes marked by virtue of schema or DTD validation as IDREF or IDREFS values.

idref($arg as xs:string*) ➔ node()*

Arguments
	$arg	xs:string*	The ID value being sought
Result		node()*

idref($arg as xs:string*, $node as node()) ➔ node()*

Arguments
	$arg	xs:string*	The ID value being sought
	$node	node()	The document in which the search takes place
Result		node()*

Namespace

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

Links to W3C specifications

XPath 3.1 Functions and Operators

Notes on the Saxon implementation

Some external object models do not provide information about ID attributes; in such cases this function will always return an empty sequence. In particular, this is true when the object model is a DOM.