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  1. References
  2. XPath
  3. Functions
  4. true
  1. XSLT: Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations
    1. An overview
    2. For further reading
    3. The Netscape XSLT/XPath Reference
  1. XSLT elements reference
    1. <xsl:apply-imports>
    2. <xsl:apply-templates>
    3. <xsl:attribute-set>
    4. <xsl:attribute>
    5. <xsl:call-template>
    6. <xsl:choose>
    7. <xsl:comment>
    8. <xsl:copy-of>
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    10. <xsl:decimal-format>
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    26. <xsl:sort>
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    29. <xsl:template>
    30. <xsl:text>
    31. <xsl:transform>
    32. <xsl:value-of>
    33. <xsl:variable>
    34. <xsl:when>
    35. <xsl:with-param>
  1. EXSLT
    1. Common (exsl)
    2. Math (math)
    3. Regular expressions (regexp)
    4. Sets (set)
    5. Strings (str)
  1. Functions
    1. boolean
    2. ceiling
    3. choose
    4. concat
    5. contains
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    7. current
    8. document
    9. element-available
    10. false
    11. floor
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    23. not
    24. number
    25. position
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    28. string
    29. string-length
    30. substring
    31. substring-after
    32. substring-before
    33. sum
    34. system-property
    35. translate
    36. true
    37. unparsed-entity-url
  1. Axes

true

The true function returns a boolean value of true.

Syntax

true()

Returns

Boolean true.

Defined

XPath 1.0 4.3

Gecko support

Supported.

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