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      <h1>saxon:break</h1>
      <p>A <code>saxon:break</code> instruction causes early exit from a loop defined using
<a class="bodylink" href="../../extensions/instructions/iterate.xml">saxon:iterate</a>. The instruction must appear lexically within
the <code>saxon:iterate</code> element.</p>
      <p>If the <code>saxon:iterate</code> instruction takes its input from streamed document (using
the <code>saxon:stream()</code> function) then executing <code>saxon:break</code> will cause
the parsing and analysis of that document to terminate. This can be very useful when you only want
to examine a small amount of data near the start of a large document. Note however that it means that
any well-formedness or validity errors appearing later in the source document will not be detected.</p>
      <p>For further details and examples see <a class="bodylink" href="../../extensions/instructions/iterate.xml">saxon:iterate</a>.</p>
      <p><i>This instruction is available in Saxon-EE only</i></p>
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