Name

max( ) — returns the largest of all the nodes in the node-set operands

Synopsis

Defined in: XForms 1.0
Parameters: node-set operands (required)
Return type: number

The value of each individual node is determined by converting the string-value to a number (as with number( )). A node-set that is empty or that includes nodes that evaluate to NaN will result in a return value of NaN.

For an XPath data model representing the following XML:

<operands>
  <operand>3.14</operand>
  <operand>42</operand>
  <operand>0</operand>
  <operand>0.86</operand>
</operands>

The following XPath expression returns 42:

max(/operands/operand)

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