.. _functx_node-kind:

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functx:node-kind
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The XML node kind (element, attribute, text, etc.)

Description
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The functx:node-kind function returns the node kind of a node (or sequence of 
nodes), one of the values "element", "attribute", "text", "comment", 
"processing-instruction", or "document-node" for each node supplied. If $nodes 
is the empty sequence, it returns the empty sequence.

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   * - **Parameters**
     - **Description**
   * - nodes:node()
     - the node(s) whose kind you want to determine

Examples
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   * - **XPath**
     - **Results**
   * - functx:node-kind($in-xml/a)
     - element
   * - functx:node-kind($in-xml/a/@z)
     - attribute
   * - functx:node-kind($in-xml/comment())
     - comment
   * - functx:node-kind($in-xml/processing-instruction())
     - processing-instruction
   * - functx:node-kind($in-xml/a/text())
     - text
   * - functx:node-kind(doc('http://www.functx.com/input/order.xml'))
     - document-node

See Also
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* :ref:`functx_atomic-type`.