SAXONICA

Saxon Documentation
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About Saxon
Changes in this Release
Conditions of Use
Using XSLT 2.0
Using XQuery
Handling Source Documents
XML Schema Processing
The XPath API
Saxon on .NET
Extensibility
Saxon Extensions
Sample Saxon Applications
The Saxon SQL Extension
XSLT Elements
XPath 2.0 Expression Syntax
Function Library
Standards Conformance

# fn:boolean

fn:boolean(item* $srcval) → boolean

Function signature

$srcval | item() *
Result | xs:boolean

Obtains the effective boolean value of the supplied argument. The result is true if the argument value is a sequence starting with a node, or the singleton boolean true(), a singleton non-zero number, or a singleton non-zero-length string (or untypedAtomic). The result is false if the argument is an empty sequence, the singleton boolean false, a singleton number zero or NaN, or a singleton zero-length string (or untypedAtomic). In all other cases the result is an error.

XPath 2.0 Specification

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