xsl:global-context-item¶
Used to declare whether a global context item is required, and if so, to declare its required type.
Available in XSLT 3.0. From Saxon 9.8, available in all editions. Requires Saxon-PE or Saxon-EE. Implemented since Saxon 9.7.
- Category: declaration
- Content: none
- Permitted parent elements:
xsl:package;xsl:stylesheet;xsl:transform
Attributes¶
as?- item-type
- The required type of the global context item; the default is
item(). use?"required" | "optional" | "absent"- Specifies whether a stylesheet module requires a global context item; the default is
optional.
Notes on the Saxon implementation¶
Implemented since Saxon 9.7.
An earlier draft of the XSLT 3.0 specification defined attributes streamable and use-accumulators (to define which accumulators are available with the document containing the global context item) for xsl:global-context-item. These were briefly implemented in Saxon but have now been dropped.