saxon:discard-document
Marks a document as being eligible for garbage collection
discard-document($doc as document-node()) ➔ document-node()
Arguments | |||
| $doc | document-node() | The document to be dropped from memory |
Result | document-node() | ||
Details
Namespace: http://saxon.sf.net/
This function removes a document from Saxon's internal document pool. The document
remains in memory for the time being, but will be released from memory by the Java garbage collector
when all references to nodes in the document tree have gone out of scope. This has the benefit
of releasing memory, but the drawback is that if the same document is loaded again during the same
transformation, it will be reparsed from the source text, and different node identifiers will be allocated.
The function returns the document node that was supplied as an argument, allowing it to be used in a
call such as select="saxon:discard-document(document('a.xml'))".
When processing a collection, a useful construct is for-each select="collection(X)!discard-document(.)"...