Hello, I think the XML input document is the default context of an unprefixed XPath expression, that is an expression with no $doc/ prefix and with no doc('someDocument.xml')/ prefix. You can just omit the . character as the first step of an XPath expression applied to the input XML document without changing the meaning of the expression. It does not seem to represent a special case of XQuery usage or Saxon usage to warrant special treatment in a user manual. Am I missing something? Regards, Sorin Eliot Kimber wrote:

I wanted to apply an XQuery to the input document specified in a Saxon transformation scenario but it wasn't immediately obvious how this would work.

I figured out that this works:

let $doc := .

As the first statement in the query (or the first that doesn't reset the context value).

I think this works because Saxon uses the value of the -s parameter as the value of the query's context node (which is accessed using ".").

It would be useful to have an example of this in the online help for running XQueries using Saxon.

Cheers,

E.