unparsed-text

Returns the contents of an external text file, given its URI. The function attempts to infer the encoding. First it looks in the HTTP headers if available. Then it examines the start of the file looking first for a byte-order-mark, and failing that for an XML declaration. If none of this works, it assumes the encoding is UTF-8.

unparsed-text($href as xs:string?) ➔ xs:string?

Arguments

 

$href

xs:string?

Result

xs:string?

unparsed-text($href as xs:string?, $encoding as xs:string) ➔ xs:string?

Arguments

 

$href

xs:string?

 

$encoding

xs:string

Result

xs:string?

Links to W3C specifications

Namespace: http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions

Applies to: XPath 3.0, XSLT 3.0, XQuery 3.0 (if enabled in Saxon: requires Saxon-PE or Saxon-EE)

XPath 3.0 Functions and Operators

XSLT 2.0 Specification

Notes on the Saxon implementation

The current Saxon implementation is not deterministic: if the function is called twice with the same argument, it will read the external file twice, and may return different results if it has changed.