Saxon Documentation

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About Saxon

Changes in this Release

Conditions of Use

Using XSLT 2.0

Using XQuery

Handling Source Documents

XML Schema Processing

XPath API for Java

Saxon on .NET

Extensibility

Saxon Extensions

Sample Saxon Applications

The Saxon SQL Extension

XSLT Elements

XPath 2.0 Expression Syntax
	Introduction
	Constants
	Variable References
	Function Calls
	Axis steps
	Parentheses and operator precedence
	Filter expressions
	Path expressions
	Cast as, Treat as
»	Set difference and intersection
	Union
	Arithmetic expressions
	Range expressions
	Comparisons
	Instance of and Castable as
	Conditional Expressions
	Quantified Expressions
	For Expressions
	Boolean expressions: AND and OR
	Sequence expressions

Function Library

Standards Conformance

Set difference and intersection

These operators are new in XPath 2.0.

The expression E1 except E2 selects all nodes that are in E1 unless they are also in E2. Both expressions must return sequences of nodes. The results are returned in document order. For example, @* except @note returns all attributes except the note attribute.

The expression E1 intersect E2 selects all nodes that are in both E1 and E2. Both expressions must return sequences of nodes. The results are returned in document order. For example, preceding::fig intersect ancestor::chapter//fig returns all preceding fig elements within the current chapter.