<?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="compile-stylesheet"/> <!-- Generated at 2011-12-09T20:47:22.916Z--><title>Saxonica: XSLT and XQuery Processing: saxon:compile-stylesheet()</title> <meta name="coverage" content="Worldwide"/> <meta name="copyright" content="Copyright Saxonica Ltd"/> <meta name="title" content="Saxonica: XSLT and XQuery Processing: saxon:compile-stylesheet()"/> <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../saxondocs.css" type="text/css"/> </head> <body class="main"> <h1>saxon:compile-stylesheet()</h1> <p><b>saxon:compile-stylesheet($stylesheet as document-node()) ==> jt:javax.xml.transform.Templates</b></p> <p>This function takes as input a document containing an XSLT stylesheet, and produces as output a compiled stylesheet suitable for use with the <a class="bodylink" href="../../extensions/functions/transform.xml">saxon:transform()</a> extension function.</p> <p>The document node can be supplied as a call on the <code>doc()</code> function to read the stylesheet from filestore (or from a remote URL), or it can be a variable containing a stylesheet that has been constructed programmatically. If the document contains any <code>xsl:include</code> or <code>xsl:import</code> declarations these will be resolved in the usual way (relative to the base URI of the element that contains them).</p> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td> <p align="right"><a class="nav" href="currentmode.xml">Next</a></p> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>