## com.saxonica.functions.extfn
Class HighestOrLowest

    java.lang.Object
      net.sf.saxon.lib.ExtensionFunctionCall
          com.saxonica.functions.extfn.GeneralFilterFunction.GeneralFilterFunctionCall
              com.saxonica.functions.extfn.HighestOrLowest

All Implemented Interfaces:
  Serializable

    public class HighestOrLowest

extends GeneralFilterFunction.GeneralFilterFunctionCall

This class implements the saxon:highest() and saxon:lowest() extension functions.

The first argument is a sequence S, the second a function F (defaulting to fn:data). The function returns the item or items I in the input sequence S for which F(I) has its highest/lowest value. It is not possible to specify a collation; the default collation is used when comparing strings.

See Also:
  Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class com.saxonica.functions.extfn.GeneralFilterFunction.GeneralFilterFunctionCall
`atomizer, defaultCollation`

Constructor Summary
`HighestOrLowest()`

Method Summary
`SequenceIterator` `call(SequenceIterator[] arguments, XPathContext context)` Evaluate this function call at run-time

Methods inherited from class com.saxonica.functions.extfn.GeneralFilterFunction.GeneralFilterFunctionCall
`copyLocalData, supplyStaticContext`

Methods inherited from class net.sf.saxon.lib.ExtensionFunctionCall
`effectiveBooleanValue, getContainer, getDefinition, getExecutable, rewrite, setDefinition`

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
`clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

Constructor Detail

### HighestOrLowest

    public HighestOrLowest()

Method Detail

### call

    public SequenceIterator call(SequenceIterator[] arguments,
                                 XPathContext context)
                          throws XPathException

  Evaluate this function call at run-time

  Specified by:
    `call` in class `ExtensionFunctionCall`
  Parameters:
    `arguments` - The values of the arguments to the function call. Each argument value (which is in general a sequence) is supplied in the form of an iterator over the items in the sequence. If required, the supplied sequence can be materialized by calling, for example, `new SequenceExtent(arguments[i])`. If the argument is always a singleton, then the single item may be obtained by calling `arguments[i].next()`. The implementation is not obliged to read all the items in each `SequenceIterator` if they are not required to compute the result; but if any SequenceIterator is not read to completion, it is good practice to call its close() method.
    `context` - The XPath dynamic evaluation context
  Returns:
    an iterator over the results of the function. If the result is a single item, it can be returned in the form of a `SingletonIterator`. If the result is an empty sequence, the method should return `EmptyIterator.getInstance()`
  Throws:
    `XPathException` - if a dynamic error occurs during evaluation of the function. The Saxon run-time code will add information about the error location.

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