saxon:compile-stylesheet

Creates a compiled stylesheet that can subsequently be used as input to saxon:transform().

compile-stylesheet($stylesheet as document-node()) ➔ jt:net.sf.saxon.PreparedStylesheet

Arguments

 

$stylesheet

document-node()

The document containing the XSLT stylesheet

Result

jt:net.sf.saxon.PreparedStylesheet

Namespace

http://saxon.sf.net/

Notes on the Saxon implementation

Available since Saxon 8.5. This function is obsolescent: it is superseded by the fn:transform() function in XPath 3.1.

Details

This function takes as input a document containing an XSLT stylesheet, and produces as output a compiled stylesheet suitable for use with the saxon:transform() extension function.

The document node can be supplied as a call on the doc() function to read the stylesheet from filestore (or from a remote URL), or it can be a variable containing a stylesheet that has been constructed programmatically. If the document contains any xsl:include or xsl:import declarations these will be resolved in the usual way (relative to the base URI of the element that contains them).

See also:

saxon:transform()

fn:transform()