xquery-data-accessor-functions-string

          xs:string
        

Returns the value of

$arg

represented as a string.

A node or an atomic value.

If

$arg

is the empty sequence, the zero-length string is returned.

If

$arg

is a node, the function returns the string value of the node that is obtained by

using the string-value accessor. This is defined in the W3C XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data

Model specification.

If

$arg

is an atomic value, the function returns the same string that is returned by the

expression cast as

,

$arg

, except when noted otherwise.

If the type of

$arg

is

, the URI is converted to a string without escaping special

characters.

In this implementation,

without an argument can only be used in the context

of a context-dependent predicate. Specifically, it can only be used inside brackets (

).

xs:string xs:anyURI fn:string()
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fn:string() as xs:string fn:string($arg as item()?) as xs:string