xsl:select

New in XSLT 4.0. Used to evaluate an arbitrary XPath expression supplied in the text content of the instruction, and return its result.

Category: instruction
Content: ( xsl:fallback* #PCDATA )
Permitted parent elements: any XSLT element whose content model is sequence-constructor; any literal result element

Attributes

as?

sequence-type

Defines the required type of the result sequence. Defaults to item()*.

Saxon availability

Available in XSLT 4.0. Requires Saxon-PE or Saxon-EE. Implemented since Saxon 13. Available for all platforms.

Notes on the Saxon implementation

New in XSLT 4.0, and implemented since Saxon 13.0.

Links to W3C specifications

XSLT 4.0 Specification