exslt-common:node-set

Originally defined as an EXSLT extension to XSLT 1.0, to convert a result-tree-fragment to a node-set.

node-set($arg as item()*) ➔ item()*

Arguments
	$arg	item()*	The input to be 'converted'
Result		item()*

Details

Namespace: http://exslt.org/common

Notes on the Saxon implementation

This function is retained in Saxon for backwards compatibility as it is widely used in XSLT 1.0 stylesheets, however it is simply a no-op, because the restrictions on use of node-sets that made it necessary have disappeared. The input can be any sequence, and it is returned unchanged. This differs from some implementations of the node-set() function which, for example, did the equivalent of parse-xml() if supplied with a string as input.