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      <h1>type-available</h1>
      <p>Returns true if a type with the given name is available, false otherwise</p>
      <p class="subhead">type-available($type as xs:string) &#8594; xs:boolean</p>
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               <p>$type</p>
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               <p>xs:string</p>
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               <p>The name of the required type, as a lexical QName</p>
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               <p>xs:boolean</p>
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      <p class="subhead">Links to W3C specifications</p>
      <p>Namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform</p>
      <p>Applies to: XSLT 2.0 and later versions</p>
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            <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#function-type-available" class="bodylink">XSLT 2.0 Specification</a>
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            <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-21/#function-type-available" class="bodylink">XSLT 2.1 Specification</a>
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      <p class="subhead">Notes on the Saxon implementation</p>
      <p>The Saxon implementation
	has a minor restriction: if the argument is known only at run-time, then
	the function tests whether the type exists in the run-time configuration,
	which does not necessarily prove that it was present in the static context.</p>
      <p>In Saxon the <code>type-available()</code> function can be used to check for the availability of Java classes. For example
<code>type-available('jt:java.util.HashMap')</code> returns true, where the prefix <code>jt</code> is bound to the URI
<code>http://saxon.sf.net/java-type</code>.</p>
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