Saxon Documentation

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About Saxon

Changes in this Release

Notices

Using XSLT 2.0

Using XQuery

Handling Source Documents

XML Schema Processing

XPath API for Java

Saxon on .NET

Extensibility

Saxon Extensions
	Introduction
	EXSLT Extensions
	Extension attributes (XSLT only)
	Additional serialization parameters
»	Extension functions
	Extension instructions

Sample Saxon Applications

The Saxon SQL Extension

XSLT Elements

XPath 2.0 Expression Syntax

Function Library

Standards Conformance

saxon:compile-stylesheet()

saxon:compile-stylesheet($stylesheet as document-node()) ==> jt:javax.xml.transform.Templates

This function takes as input a document containing an XSLT stylesheet, and produces as output a compiled stylesheet suitable for use with the saxon:transform() extension function.

The document node can be supplied as a call on the doc() function to read the stylesheet from filestore (or from a remote URL), or it can be a variable containing a stylesheet that has been constructed programmatically. If the document contains any xsl:include or xsl:import declarations these will be resolved in the usual way (relative to the base URI of the element that contains them).