|Reads the textual contents of the file specified by {{Code|$path}} and returns it as [[Lazy Module|lazy]] {{Code|xs:string}} item:
* The UTF-8 default encoding can be overwritten with the optional {{Code|$encoding}} argument.
* By default, invalid XML characters will be rejected. If {{Code|$fallback}} is set to trueenabled, these the characters will be replaced with the Unicode replacement character <code>FFFD</code> (�).
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| '''Errors'''