SAXONICA

Saxon Documentation
Full Contents
About Saxon
Changes in this Release
Conditions of Use
Using XSLT 2.0
Using XQuery
Handling Source Documents
XML Schema Processing
The XPath API
Saxon on .NET
Extensibility
Saxon Extensions
Sample Saxon Applications
The Saxon SQL Extension
XSLT Elements
XPath 2.0 Expression Syntax
Function Library
Standards Conformance

# fn:collection

fn:collection() → node()*

Function signature

$srcval | xs:string
Result | node() *

XPath 2.0 Specification

Returns the default collection if there is one.

Saxon implements this function by passing a null URI to the registered `CollectionURIResolver`. The default `CollectionURIResolver` implementation supplied with the product handles this by returning an empty sequence, but a user-supplied `CollectionURIResolver` is free to handle this case any way it wishes.

fn:collection(string $srcval) → node()*

Function signature

$srcval | xs:string
Result | node() *

Loads an external collection of nodes identified by the URI of the collection

XPath 2.0 Specification

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