The collection() function returns a sequence of documents, or more generally a sequence of nodes, identified by a URI. The way in which a URI can be used to locate a collection of documents is entirely implementation defined.
Argument | Data Type | Meaning |
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uri | xs:string | A URI that identifies a collection of documents, or nodes within documents |
Result | node ( )* | The sequence of documents, or nodes within documents, identified by the URI |