<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <?xml-stylesheet href="../../make-menu.xsl" type="text/xsl"?><html> <head> <this-is section="extensions" page="functions" subpage="stream"/> <!-- Generated at 2011-12-09T20:47:22.916Z--><title>Saxonica: XSLT and XQuery Processing: saxon:stream()</title> <meta name="coverage" content="Worldwide"/> <meta name="copyright" content="Copyright Saxonica Ltd"/> <meta name="title" content="Saxonica: XSLT and XQuery Processing: saxon:stream()"/> <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../saxondocs.css" type="text/css"/> </head> <body class="main"> <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> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td> <p align="right"><a class="nav" href="octetstobase64binary.xml">Next</a></p> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>