fn:parse-xml-fragment

This function takes as input an XML external entity represented as a string, and returns the document node at the root of an XDM tree representing the parsed document fragment.

For details of error handling, see the parse-xml() function.

parse-xml-fragment($arg as xs:string?) ➔ document-node()?

Arguments
	$arg	xs:string?	The lexical XML string to be parsed as a document fragment
Result		document-node()?

Namespace

http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions

Links to W3C specifications

XPath 3.0 Functions and Operators

XPath 3.1 Functions and Operators

Notes on the Saxon implementation

Available since Saxon 9.5, provided XPath 3.0 is enabled.