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:root

fn:root() → node

Function signature

Result

node()

Returns the root node (typically but not necessarily a document node) of the tree containing the context node

XPath 2.0 Specification

fn:root(node $srcval) → node

Function signature

$srcval	node()
Result	node()

Returns the root node (typically but not necessarily a document node) of the tree containing the given node

XPath 2.0 Specification

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