Reverses the order of items in a sequence.

Related Syntax Constructs

The following construct(s) refer to this construct:

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Syntax

fn:reverse(sequence $sequence) => sequence

Description

This function returns the input sequence in reversed order.

Argument

$sequence	sequence

Example

• Retrieve the last name of every author and reverse the obtained sequence:

  declare namespace ino="http://namespaces.softwareag.com/tamino/response2"
  let $authors := input()//author/last
  return ($authors,<delimiter/>,reverse($authors))
  

  The query returns all authers and, seperated by a construncted delimiter-node, the authors in reversed order.