XSLT and XPath function reference in alphabetical order

(Excerpt from “XSLT 2.0 & XPath 2.0” by Frank Bongers, chapter 5, translated from German)

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fn:reverse

Category:

Functions for sequences

Origin:

XPath 2.0

Return value:

A sequence; the copy of the input sequence with reversed order of the items contained in it.

Call/Arguments:

fn:reverse($inputSequence)

$inputSequence:

A sequence of any number of items of any type which are copied and reversed in their order for the output sequence.

Purpose of use:

The fn:reverse() function returns the items of an input sequence in reversed order as output sequence. So, the first item of the input sequence becomes the last item of the output sequence, the last item of the input sequence becomes the first item of the output sequence.

The value and the data type of each item are preserved.

If the input sequence only consists of one item, it is returned unchanged. If the empty sequence is passed on to the function, it returns an empty result sequence accordingly.

Example – reversion of the order of the items of a sequence:

fn:reverse(('a', 'b', 'c'))

results in: ('c', 'b', 'a'). The last item of the input sequence becomes the first item of the output sequence and vice versa.

Function definition:

XPath 1.0:

The function is not available.

XPath 2.0:

fn:reverse($arg as item()*) as item()*

   

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