Home >Online Product Documentation >Table of Contents >Example of Calling the document() Function < Previous| Next > Example of Calling the document() Function Suppose you have the following XML document: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <books> <bookstore>bookstore1:bookstore1.xml</bookstore> <bookstore>bookstore2:bookstore2.xml</bookstore> <bookstore>bookstore3:bookstore3.xml</bookstore> </books> The following query returns the bookstore elements: /books/bookstore Now suppose you pass this query to the document() function as follows: document(/books/bookstore) This query returns the root nodes of bookstore1.xml, bookstore2.xml, and bookstore3.xml. < Previous| Next >