substring-before
Returns the part of string arg1 that occurs before the string arg2.
Languages
XQuery, XSLT 2.0, XSLT 3.0.
Parameters
Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
arg1 | xs:string | The input string (that is, the "haystack"). |
arg2 | xs:string | The substring (that is, the "needle"). |
collation | xs:string | Specifies the collation to use for string comparison. This input may originate from the output of the default-collation function or it may be a collation such as http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions/collation/html-ascii-case-insensitive. |
Example
If arg1 is "MapForce", arg2 is "Force", and collation is default-collation, the function returns "Map".