document()
document()
The document
finds a node-set in an external document, or multiple external documents, and returns the resulting node-set.
Syntax
document(URI [,node-set] )
Arguments
-
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 the external document that should be returned.
Returns
A node-set.
Notes
- 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 the
node-set
argument's express