It seems that when the argument does not match any path (on disk or in the collections), its content is taken as xml : fn:doc('<root/>') --> <root/> De : basex-talk-bounces@mailman.uni-konstanz.de [mailto:basex-talk-bounces@mailman.uni-konstanz.de] De la part de Hans-Juergen Rennau Envoyé : vendredi 13 décembre 2013 13:41 À : basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de Objet : [basex-talk] fn:doc("c:/...") Dear BaseX team, I'm a little confused by the behavior of the fn:doc function: doc('/c:/projects/foo.xml') yields this error msg: [FODC0002] Line 1: No text allowed before root element. Whereas these work: doc('c:/projects/foo.xml') doc('file://c:/projects/foo.xml') Is this a bug or a feature? At any rate the error msg is confusing. I've used the latest snapshot (20131211.173706). Kind regards, Hans-Juergen