SAXONICA

Saxon Documentation
Full Contents
About Saxon
Changes in this Release
Notices
Using XSLT 2.0
Using XQuery
Handling Source Documents
XML Schema Processing
XPath API for Java
Saxon on .NET
Extensibility
Saxon Extensions
| Introduction
| EXSLT Extensions
| Extension attributes (XSLT only)
| Additional serialization parameters
» | Extension functions
| Extension instructions
Sample Saxon Applications
The Saxon SQL Extension
XSLT Elements
XPath 2.0 Expression Syntax
Function Library
Standards Conformance

# saxon:stream()

saxon:stream($input as item()*) ==>item()*

Conceptually, this function returns a copy of its input. The intent, however, is to evaluate the supplied argument in "streaming mode", which allows an input document to be processed without building a tree represention of the whole document in memory. This allows much larger documents to be processed using Saxon than would otherwise be the case.

For further details see Streaming of Large Documents.

The `saxon:stream()` function is available only with Saxon-SA.

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