XSLT, 2nd Edition

Name

sum()

Converts all nodes in the argument node-set to numbers, and then returns the sum of all of those numbers.

Syntax

[1.0] number sum(node-set)
[2.0] xs:anyAtomicType sum(xs:anyAtomicType)
[2.0] xs:anyAtomicType sum(xs:anyAtomicType, $empty as xs:anyAtomicType)

Inputs

[1.0] A node-set. Any node in the node-set that is not a number is converted to a number as if it were passed to the number() function, after which the numeric values of all of the nodes are summed.

[2.0] A sequence of atomic values, plus an optional value that is returned when the first argument to sum() is the empty sequence.

Output

[1.0] The sum of the numeric values of all of the nodes in the argument node-set. If any node in the argument node-set cannot be converted to a number, the sum() function returns NaN.

[2.0] Given a sequence of numeric values, sum() returns the sum of those values. Given a sequence of durations, sum() returns the sum of those durations. As you’d expect from XSLT 2.0, there are some complications to consider:

• To calculate the sum of a sequence of durations, the durations must all be xs:dayTimeDurations, or they must all be xs:yearMonthDurations. You can’t mix the two types of durations; if you do, the XSLT processor raises an error.

• If any of the items in the sequence are of type xs:untypedAtomic, the XSLT processor attempts to cast it to xs:double. If it can’t be converted to an xs:double, the XSLT processor raises an error.

• If you pass a nonempty sequence to sum() and the sum is 0, the function ...