deep-equal

deep-equal

The deep-equal() function performs a deep comparison between two sequences:

• the items in corresponding positions in each sequence must be deep-equal to each other

• if the items are nodes, they are compared by examining their children and attributes recursively

Argument	Data Type	Meaning
sequence- 1	item() *	The first operand of the comparison
sequence-2	item() *	The second operand of the comparison
collation (optional)	xs:string	The collation to be used for comparing strings (at any depth)
Result	xs:boolean	true if the sequences are deep-equal, otherwise false