Saxon Documentation

Full Contents

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

Sample Saxon Applications

The Saxon SQL Extension

XSLT Elements

XPath 2.0 Expression Syntax

Function Library

Standards Conformance

xslt:system-property

Function signature

$propertyName	xs:string
Result	xs:string

Returns the value of a system property

XSLT 2.0 Specification

Note:In the Saxon implementation, if the argument is a name in no namespace, that is, if the name is unprefixed, then the name is taken to refer to a Java system property, and the value of that property is returned if it exists. For example, on a Windows platform, system-property('file.separator') returns "\". This can be used to obtain information from the environment, and is especially useful in conjunction with use-when conditional compilation.