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

Function Library

Standards Conformance

fn:deep-equal

fn:deep-equal(item()* $parameter1, item()* $parameter2) → boolean

Function signature

$operand1	item() *
$operand2	item() *
Result	xs:boolean

Compares two sequences for deep equality; string values are compared using the default collation; nodes are compared for deep equality of names and content.

XPath 2.0 Specification

fn:deep-equal(item()* $parameter1, item()* $parameter2, string $collation) → boolean

Function signature

$operand1	item() *
$operand2	item() *
$collation	string
Result	xs:boolean

Compares two sequences for deep equality; string values are compared using the named collation; nodes are compared for deep equality of names and content.

XPath 2.0 Specification