fn:min

Returns the lowest value in a sequence of comparable items.

min($values as xs:anyAtomicType*, $collation as xs:string?:=fn:default-collation()) ➔ xs:anyAtomicType?

Arguments

 

$values

xs:anyAtomicType*

The input sequence

 

$collation

xs:string?

:= fn:default-collation()

The collation used for comparing strings

Result

xs:anyAtomicType?

Namespace

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

Links to W3C specifications

XPath 3.1 Functions and Operators

XPath 4.0 Functions and Operators

Saxon availability

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

Notes on the Saxon implementation

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