XPath:Functions:document

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Contents 1 Syntax 2 Arguments 3 Returns 4 Notes 5 Defined 6 Gecko support

The document finds a node-set in an external document, or multiple external documents, and returns the resulting node-set.

[edit] Syntax

document( URI [, node-set] )

[edit] Arguments

URI

An absolute or relative URI of the document to be retrieved. The URI may also include a fragment identifier.

node-set (optional)

An expression pointing to a node-set the external document that should be returned.

[edit] Returns

A node-set.

[edit] Notes

• If the URI contains a fragment identifier and that fragment can be identified in the external document, that fragment will be treated as the root in the node-set argument's expression. If the node-set argument is omitted, the entire fragment will be returned.

• If the URI argument is a node-set, and the second argument is present, each node in the node-set will be evaluated as a separate URI, and the returned node-set will be as if the document function has been called multiple times and the resulting node-sets had been concatenated into a single node-set.

• Other specific conditions exist with specified behaviors. See the XSLT 1.0 documentation for details.

• Since the URI is relative to the XSL document, document("") would return the root node of the current document.

This function is an XSLT-specific addition to XPath. It is not a part of the core XPath function library.

[edit] Defined

XSLT 1.0 12.1

[edit] Gecko support

Supported.