<html><head><META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>Range expressions</title><link href="book.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"><link href="../book.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"><meta content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.74.0" name="generator"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="XPath 2.0 Processor User Manual"><link rel="up" href="ch02s03.html" title="How to use the XPath 2.0 grammar with PsychoPath"><link rel="prev" href="ch02s03s05s03.html" title="Addition and Subtraction:"><link rel="next" href="ch02s03s07.html" title="Comparisons"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="Range_expressions"></a>Range expressions</h3></div></div></div><p>The expression E1 to E2 returns a sequence of integers. For
        example, 1 to 5 returns the sequence 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. This is useful in
        for expressions, for example the first five nodes of a node sequence
        can be processed by writing for $i in 1 to 5 return (//x) <a class="ulink" href="$i" target="_top">$i</a>. Another example:</p><p><pre class="programlisting">(1+1 to 10)</pre></p><p> <span class="bold"><strong>result:</strong></span></p><div class="orderedlist"><ol type="1"><li><p>xs:integer: 2</p></li><li><p>xs:integer: 3</p></li><li><p>xs:integer: 4</p></li><li><p>xs:integer: 5</p></li><li><p>xs:integer: 6</p></li><li><p>xs:integer: 7</p></li><li><p>xs:integer: 8</p></li><li><p>xs:integer: 9</p></li><li><p>xs:integer: 10</p></li></ol></div></div></body></html>