functx:node-kind
The XML node kind (element, attribute, text, etc.)
Description
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 $nodes is the empty sequence, it returns the empty sequence.
Parameters |
Description |
|---|---|
nodes:node() |
the node(s) whose kind you want to determine |
Examples
XPath |
Results |
|---|---|
functx:node-kind($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 |