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fn:ceiling

Rounds up to the next highest integer

Description

The fn:ceiling function returns the smallest integer that is not less than $arg. The result type depends the numeric type of the argument. If $arg is untyped, it is cast to xs:double.

This description is © Copyright 2007, O'Reilly Media. It is excerpted from the book XQuery by Priscilla Walmsley, O'Reilly, 2007. For a complete explanation of this function, please refer to Appendix A of the book.

Arguments and Return Type

Name	Type
`$arg`	`numeric?`
return value	`numeric?`

Examples

XSLT Example	Results
`ceiling(5)`	`5`
`ceiling(5.1)`	`6`
`ceiling(5.5)`	`6`
`ceiling(-5.5)`	`-5`
`ceiling(-5.51)`	`-5`
`ceiling( () )`	`()`

History

Published On	Last Updated	Contributor(s)
2006-06-27	2007-02-26	W3C, XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators, http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/

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