fn:max

Returns the highest value in a sequence of comparable items.

max($arg as xs:anyAtomicType*) ➔ xs:anyAtomicType?

Arguments

 

$arg

xs:anyAtomicType*

The input sequence

Result

xs:anyAtomicType?

max($arg as xs:anyAtomicType*, $collation as xs:string) ➔ xs:anyAtomicType?

Arguments

 

$arg

xs:anyAtomicType*

The input sequence

 

$collation

xs:string

The collation to be used when comparing strings

Result

xs:anyAtomicType?

Namespace

http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions

Links to W3C specifications

XPath 3.1 Functions and Operators

Saxon availability

Available in XPath 2.0, XSLT 2.0, XQuery 1.0, and later versions. Available in all Saxon editions.

Notes on the Saxon implementation

Saxon also (for compatibility) implements the function math:max() in namespace http://exslt.org/math.