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<h1>saxon:item-at()</h1>
<p><b>saxon:item-at($seq as item()*, $index as numeric?) ==> item()?</b></p>
<p>This function returns the item at a given position in a sequence. The index counts from one. If the index
is an empty sequence, or less than one, or not a whole number, or greater than the length of the sequence,
the result is an empty sequence.</p>
<p><i>This function is provided largely because it is used internally by the Saxon optimizer.
For user applications, it is better to use <code>$seq[$index]</code> which will return the same result
provided there are no context-dependencies in <code>$index</code>, or
<code>subsequence($seq, $index, 1)</code> which will return the same
result in all cases where <code>$index</code> evaluates to an integer.</i></p>
<p>Example:</p>
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<code>saxon:item-at(10 to 20, 8)</code>
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<p>will return 17.</p>
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