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
Standards Conformance
Extensibility
Saxon Extensions
Sample Saxon Applications
The Saxon SQL Extension
XSLT Elements
| Introduction
| xsl:analyze-string
| xsl:apply-imports
| xsl:apply-templates
| xsl:attribute
| xsl:attribute-set
| xsl:call-template
| xsl:character-map
| xsl:choose
| xsl:comment
| xsl:copy
| xsl:copy-of
| xsl:decimal-format
» | xsl:document
| xsl:element
| xsl:fallback
| xsl:for-each
| xsl:for-each-group
| xsl:function
| xsl:if
| xsl:include
| xsl:import
| xsl:import-schema
| xsl:key
| xsl:matching-substring
| xsl:message
| xsl:namespace
| xsl:namespace-alias
| xsl:next-match
| xsl:non-matching-substring
| xsl:number
| xsl:otherwise
| xsl:output
| xsl:output-character
| xsl:param
| xsl:perform-sort
| xsl:preserve-space
| xsl:processing-instruction
| xsl:result-document
| xsl:sequence
| xsl:sort
| xsl:strip-space
| xsl:stylesheet
| xsl:template
| xsl:text
| xsl:value-of
| xsl:variable
| xsl:when
| xsl:with-param
| Literal Result Elements
XPath 2.0 Expression Syntax
Function Library
XSLT Patterns

# xsl:document

The `xsl:document` instruction creates a new document node. The content of the new document node is created using the contained instructions (in the same way as `xsl:result-document`), and the new document node is added to the result sequence. The instruction is useful mainly if you want to validate the document: the element allows attributes `validation` and `type` which perform document-level validation in the same way as the corresponding attributes on `xsl:result-document`.

The instruction also allows a function or template to create a temporary tree without the need to create a variable and then return the value of the variable.

This instruction should not be confused with the instruction of the same name in the XSLT 1.1 draft, (which is supported in Saxon 6.5.x). That instruction was a precursor to `xsl:result-document`.

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