Thedocument finds a node-set in an external document, or multiple external documents, and returns the resulting node-set.

Syntax

document( URI [,node-set] )

Parameters

URI

An absolute or relative URI of the document to be retrieved. The URI may also include a fragment identifier.

node-set (optional)

An expression pointing to a node-set in the external document that should be returned.

Return value

A node-set.

Description

• If the URI contains a fragment identifier and that fragment can be identified in the external document, that fragment will be treated as the root in thenode-set argument's expression. If thenode-set argument is omitted, the entire fragment will be returned.
• If theURI argument is a node-set, and the second argument is present, each node in the node-set will be evaluated as a separate URI, and the returned node-set will be as if thedocument function has been called multiple times (each time with the same second argument just as given in the function call) and the resulting node-sets had been concatenated into a single node-set.
• Other specific conditions exist with specified behaviors. See the XSLT 1.0 documentation for details.
• Since the URI is relative to the XSL document,document("") would return the root node of the current document.

This function is an XSLT-specific addition to XPath. It is not a part of the core XPath function library.

Specifications

XSLT 1.0 12.1

Gecko support

Supported.