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

The saxon:next-in-chain attribute

The saxon:next-in-chain attribute (XSLT-only) is used to direct the output to another stylesheet. The value is the URL of a stylesheet that should be used to process the output stream. In this case the output stream must always be pure XML, and attributes that control the format of the output (e.g. method, cdata-section-elements, etc) will have no effect. The output of the second stylesheet will be directed to the destination that would have been used for the first stylesheet if no saxon:next-in-chain attribute were not present.

An alternative way of chaining transformations is to use the saxon:compile-stylesheet() and saxon:transform() extension functions.