fn:char

Returns a string containing a particular character or glyph.

char($value as (xs:string | xs:positiveInteger)) ➔ xs:string

Arguments

 

$value

(xs:string | xs:positiveInteger)

A value identifying a particular character: either a Unicode codepoint, an HTML5 character reference name, or one of the backslash-escape sequences \n, \r or \t

Result

xs:string

Namespace

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

Links to W3C specifications

XPath 4.0 Functions and Operators

Saxon availability

Available in XPath 4.0, XSLT 4.0, and XQuery 4.0. Requires Saxon-PE or Saxon-EE. Implemented since Saxon 13. Available for all platforms.