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fn:string-join

Concatenates a sequence of strings using an optional separator

Description

The fn:string-join function concatenates a sequence of strings. The $arg1 argument specifies the sequence of strings to concatenate, while $arg2 specifies the separator. If $arg2 is a zero-length string, no separator is used.

This description is © Copyright 2007, Priscilla Walmsley. It is excerpted from the book XQuery by Priscilla Walmsley, O'Reilly, 2007. For a complete explanation of this function, please refer to Appendix A of the book.

Arguments and Return Type

Examples

string-join( ('a', 'b', 'c'), '')

abc

string-join( ('a', 'b', 'c'), '/*')

a/*b/*c

string-join( ('a', '', 'c'), '/*')

a/*/*c

string-join( 'a', '/*')

a

string-join((), '/*')

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