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<h1>Result Format</h1>
<p>The result of a query is a sequence of nodes and atomic values - which means it is not, in general,
an XML document. This raises the question as to how the results should be output.</p>
<p>The Saxon command line processor for XQuery by default produces the output in raw format.
This converts the result sequence to a document following the rules of the XQuery <code>document{}</code>
constructor, and then serializes this document.</p>
<p>The alternative is wrapped format, requested using the <code>-wrap</code> argument.
This wraps the result sequence as an XML document,
and then serializes the resulting document. Each item in the result sequence is wrapped in an element
(such as <code>result:element</code> or <code>result:atomic-value</code>) according to its type. The sequence
as a whole is wrapped in a <code>result:sequence</code> element.</p>
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