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:generate-id()

saxon:generate-id($node as node()) => xs:string

This function returns a string that acts as a unique identifier for the supplied node. The identifier will always consist of ASCII letters and digits and will start with a letter.

The function is identical to the XSLT generate-id() function. It is provided as an extension function in the Saxon namespace to make it available in contexts other than XSLT, for example in XQuery.