• Chapter 1: Getting Started with Stylus Studio®
• Chapter 2: Editing and Querying XML
• Chapter 3: Converting Non-XML Files to XML
• Chapter 4: Working with XSLT
• Chapter 5: Creating XSLT Using the XSLT Mapper
• Chapter 6: Debugging Stylesheets
• Chapter 7: Defining XML Schemas
• Chapter 8: Defining Document Type Definitions
• Chapter 9: Writing XPath Expressions
  • About the XPath Processor
  • Sample Data for Examples and Testing
  • Getting Started with Queries
  • Specifying the Nodes to Evaluate
  • Handling Strings and Text
  • Specifying Boolean Expressions and Functions
  • Specifying Number Operations and Functions
  • Comparing Values
  • Finding a Particular Node
  • Obtaining a Union
  • Obtaining Information About a Node or a Node Set
  • Using XPath Expressions in Stylesheets
  • Accessing Other Documents During Query Execution
    • Format of the document() Function
    • When the First Argument is a Node Set
    • Specification of Second Argument
    • Example of Calling the document() Function
  • XPath Quick Reference
• Chapter 10: Working with XQuery in Stylus Studio
• Chapter 11: Composing Web Service Calls
• Chapter 12: Accessing Relational Data as XML
• Chapter 13: Integrating with Third-Party File Systems
• Chapter 14: Extending Stylus Studio
• Chapter 15: Stylus Studio GUI Reference

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Example of Calling the document() Function

Suppose you have the following XML document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
               
<books> 
               

              

                
<bookstore>bookstore1:bookstore1.xml</bookstore> 
                   
<bookstore>bookstore2:bookstore2.xml</bookstore> 
                   
<bookstore>bookstore3:bookstore3.xml</bookstore>
                   

                
              
</books> 
               

            

The following query returns the bookstore elements:

/books/bookstore
               

            

Now suppose you pass this query to the document() function as follows:

document(/books/bookstore)
               

            

This query returns the root nodes of bookstore1.xml, bookstore2.xml, and bookstore3.xml.