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deep-equal

Assesses whether two nodes have the same content and attributes.

To be deep-equal, they must contain items that are pairwise deep-equal; and for two items to be deep-equal, they must either be atomic values that compare equal, or nodes of the same kind, with the same name, whose children are deep-equal. The $collation argument identifies a collation which is used at all levels of recursion when strings are compared, but not when names are compared.

Syntax

fn:deep-equal(parameter1, parameter2, collation)

The following table describes the arguments:

Argument	Required/ Optional	Description
parameter1	Required	The first sequence to compare.
parameter2	Required	The second sequence to compare.
collation	Optional	The collation to use for comparing strings. The collation argument identifies the collation to be used at all levels of recursion when strings are compared, but not when names are compared.