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:call-template

The saxon:call-template instruction is identical to xsl:call-template except that the template name can be written as an attribute value template, allowing the actual template that is called to be selected at run time.

Typical usage is:
<saxon:call-template name="{$tname}"/>

This feature replaces the saxon:allow-avt attribute that was provided on xsl:call-template in earlier releases. The XSLT 2.0 rules on extension attributes have been tightened up, making it clear that the earlier design was non-conformant.

The saxon:call-template instruction allows xsl:fallback as a child element, so that fallback behaviour can be defined for other XSLT processors when they encounter this instruction.