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  1. References
  2. XPath
  3. Functions
  4. false
  1. XSLT: Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations
    1. An overview
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    3. The Netscape XSLT/XPath Reference
  1. XSLT elements reference
    1. <xsl:apply-imports>
    2. <xsl:apply-templates>
    3. <xsl:attribute-set>
    4. <xsl:attribute>
    5. <xsl:call-template>
    6. <xsl:choose>
    7. <xsl:comment>
    8. <xsl:copy-of>
    9. <xsl:copy>
    10. <xsl:decimal-format>
    11. <xsl:element>
    12. <xsl:fallback>
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    14. <xsl:if>
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    16. <xsl:include>
    17. <xsl:key>
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    33. <xsl:variable>
    34. <xsl:when>
    35. <xsl:with-param>
  1. EXSLT
    1. Common (exsl)
    2. Math (math)
    3. Regular expressions (regexp)
    4. Sets (set)
    5. Strings (str)
  1. Functions
    1. boolean
    2. ceiling
    3. choose
    4. concat
    5. contains
    6. count
    7. current
    8. document
    9. element-available
    10. false
    11. floor
    12. format-number
    13. function-available
    14. generate-id
    15. id
    16. key
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    19. local-name
    20. name
    21. namespace-uri
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    23. not
    24. number
    25. position
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    27. starts-with
    28. string
    29. string-length
    30. substring
    31. substring-after
    32. substring-before
    33. sum
    34. system-property
    35. translate
    36. true
    37. unparsed-entity-url
  1. Axes

false

The false function returns boolean false.

Syntax

false()

Returns

Boolean false.

Notes

This function is useful part of a comparison:

xml

<xsl:if test="boolean((1 &gt; 2) = false())">
  The expression evaluates as true
</xsl:if>

Defined

XPath 1.0 4.3

Gecko support

Supported.

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