exsl: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()*

Namespace

http://exslt.org/common

Links to specifications

EXSLT Common Module

Saxon availability

Available in all Saxon editions.

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.