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:last-modified()

saxon:last-modified() ==> xs:dateTime?

saxon:last-modified(node()) ==> xs:dateTime?

This function returns the date/time when the file from which the given node (or the context node, if the argument is omitted) was modified. It returns the empty sequence if the information is not available, or if any errors occur.

To get diagnostics in the event of an error, set the -TJ option on the command line or the TRACE_EXTERNAL_FUNCTIONS configuration option.

Example:

format-dateTime(last-modified())