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<h1>saxon:stream()</h1>
<p><b>saxon:stream($input as item()*) ==>item()*</b></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>For further details see <a class="bodylink" href="../../sourcedocs/streaming.xml">Streaming of Large Documents</a>.</p>
<p><i>The <code>saxon:stream()</code> function is available only with Saxon-EE.</i></p>
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