XPath/XQuery string-to-codepoints function

Summary

Returns the sequence of codepoints that constitute an xs:string value.

Signature

fn:string-to-codepoints(
$arg as xs:string?
) as xs:integer*

Properties

This function is deterministic, context-independent, and focus-independent.

Rules

The function returns a sequence of integers, each integer being the Unicode codepoint of the corresponding character in $arg.

If $arg is a zero-length string or the empty sequence, the function returns the empty sequence.

Examples

The expression fn:string-to-codepoints("Thérèse") returns (84, 104, 233, 114, 232, 115, 101).