functx:min-string
The minimum of a sequence of values, treating them like strings
Description
The functx:min-string function returns the minimum of the values in $strings. It differs from the built-in fn:min function only in treats values of all types like strings. The fn:min function, by contrast, treats untyped and numeric values like numbers (and an error is raised if they are not numbers).
Parameters |
Description |
|---|---|
strings:string() |
the sequence of strings |
Examples
XPath |
Results |
Explanation |
|---|---|---|
functx:min-string( $in-xml/* ) |
a |
Calling the fn:min function instead would have raised an error. |
functx:min-string( (100,25,3) ) |
100 |
XPath |
Results |
|---|---|
functx:min-string( $in-xml/* ) |
a |
functx:min-string( (100,25,3) ) |
100 |