saxon:break

A saxon:break instruction causes early exit from a loop defined using saxon:iterate. The instruction must appear lexically within the saxon:iterate element.

If the saxon:iterate instruction takes its input from streamed document (using the saxon:stream() function) then executing saxon:break will cause the parsing and analysis of that document to terminate. This can be very useful when you only want to examine a small amount of data near the start of a large document. Note however that it means that any well-formedness or validity errors appearing later in the source document will not be detected.

For further details and examples see saxon:iterate.

This instruction is available in Saxon-EE only