doc-available

Whether a document is available

Description

The fn:doc-available function is a way to avoid the errors returned by the fn:doc function if a document is not available. This function will return true if calling the fn:doc function on the same URI will result in a document node. It will return false if the fn:doc function would not return a document node.

Parameters

Description

uri:string()

the URI of the document to check for

Examples

XPath

Results

doc-available(’http://www.functx.com/input/order.xml’)

true

doc-available(’http://www.functx.com/input/foo.xml’)

false

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