SAXONICA

Saxon Documentation

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About Saxon

Changes in this Release

Conditions of Use

Using XSLT 2.0

Using XQuery

Handling Source Documents

XML Schema Processing

XPath API for Java

Saxon on .NET

Extensibility

Saxon Extensions

Sample Saxon Applications

The Saxon SQL Extension

XSLT Elements

XPath 2.0 Expression Syntax

Function Library

Standards Conformance

fn:doc

fn:doc(string? $uri) → document?

Function signature

$uri	string ?
Result	document-node() ?

XPath 2.0 Specification

Loads a document identified by its URI

The way the URI is handled depends on the URIResolver in use. The standard URI resolver has an option (set using -p on the command line, or via options on the Configuration or TransformerFactory classes) to recognize query parameters in the URI. These are keyword=value pairs, separated by semicolons or ampersand characters, giving options for parsing the file located via the URI. The options that are recognized are:

• validation=strict|lax|preserve|strip: determines how the input document will be validated. The options "strict" and "lax" require Saxon-SA.

• strip-space=yes|no|ignorable: determines whether whitespace-only text nodes will be stripped from the source document. (Such nodes are stripped if this is requested either using this option, or using xsl:strip-space declarations in the stylesheet.) The value "ignorable" causes whitespace text nodes to be stripped if they belong to an element defined in a DTD or schema as having element-only content.

• parser=full.class.name: determines the name of the parser (XMLReader) to be used to parse this input file. For example, parser=org.ccil.cowan.tagsoup.Parser causes John Cowan's TagSoup parser for HTML to be used.

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