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unparsed-text
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Open a non-XML document

Description
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The fn:unparsed-text function reads an external resource (for example, a file) 
and returns its contents as a string. Note: this is an XSLT-only function; it is 
not available in XQuery or XPath.

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   * - **Parameters**
     - **Description**
   * - href:string()
     - 
   * - encoding:string()
     - 

See Also
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* :ref:`doc`.
* :ref:`unparsed-text-available`.