SAXONICA

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

# saxon:line-number(node)

line-number() or line-number(node)

This function returns the line number of a selected node within the XML document (or external entity) that contains it. If the argument is supplied, it must be a node; if the argument is omitted, the context item is used, in which case the context item must be a node. If line numbers are not maintained for the current document, the function returns -1.

To ensure that line numbers are maintained, use the -l option on the command line.

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