Saxon.Api

Class XdmExternalObject

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public class XdmExternalObject

extends XdmItem

An XdmItem that wraps an external .NET object.

External objects are a Saxon extension, and represent a fourth kind of item, after nodes, atomic values, and functions. They are primarily useful in conjunction with extension functions: an external object may be returned from one extension function, and passed as an argument to another. They can also be supplied as parameters to a stylesheet or query, which in turn might pass them to an extension function.

In the first release of SaxonCS (11.0), this type was generic, and was parameterized by the type of the wrapped object. This caused problems when attempting to reconstruct an XdmExternalObject from its internal representation (see bug 5151); in consequence the type parameter was dropped in 11.1.

Constructor Summary
XdmExternalObject (object value) Wrap an external object as an XdmItem

 

Method Summary
object	GetObject () Get the wrapped external object
bool	IsAtomic () Ask whether the item is an atomic value.