Accessor Functions

fn:node-kind(Node)

Returns a string identifying the kind of node; i.e. "document", "element", "attribute", "text", "namespace", "processing-instruction", or "comment".

fn:name(Node)

returns zero or one QName

fn:string(Object)

returns the string value of anything

fn:data(Node)

returns a sequence of zero or more typed simple values

fn:base-uri(node)

returns the base URI of an Element or Document node

fn:unique-ID(element)

returns the unique ID of an element