MarkLogic 9 Product Documentation

fn.document

fn.document(
   uris as String | String[] | Sequence,
   [base-node as Node]
) as Sequence

Summary

Returns the document(s) stored in the database at the specified URI(s). The URI(s) are resolved according to the base-uri of the calling stylesheet or XQuery main module.

This is an XSLT function, and it is available in both XSLT and in XQuery 1.0-ml.

Usage Notes

If no second argument is specified, the URI resolves using the base-uri of the calling module. This can cause surprising results if the URI you are resolving is not rooted but the module from which you call it has a base-uri. When calling fn:document from an xdmp:eval, the calling module is defined to have no base-uri. When calling from an XQuery module or an XSLT stylesheet, the base-uri is the URI of the module or stylesheet. For an example to demonstrate this , see the second example below.

For the URI to be exactly what you enter, use fn:doc instead.

Example

fn.document(["/product.xml", "/price.xml"],
            xdmp.unquote('<a xml:base="http://www.marklogic.com" />'));