SAXONICA

Saxon Documentation
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About Saxon
Changes in this Release
| Version 8.7 (2006-02-24)
| Version 8.6.1 (24 November 2005)
| Version 8.6 (3 November 2005)
» | Version 8.5.1 (26 August 2005)
| Version 8.5 (2 August 2005)
| Version 8.4 (4 April 2005)
| Version 8.3 (11 February 2005)
| Version 8.2 (21 December 2004)
| Version 8.1.1 (8 October 2004)
| Version 8.1 (24 September 2004)
| Version 8.0 (1 June 2004)
Conditions of Use
Using XSLT 2.0
Using XQuery
Handling Source Documents
XML Schema Processing
The XPath API
Saxon on .NET
Extensibility
Saxon Extensions
Sample Saxon Applications
The Saxon SQL Extension
XSLT Elements
XPath 2.0 Expression Syntax
Function Library
Standards Conformance

# Functions and Operators

The standard URI resolver now handles escaped percent signs in URIs correctly. Previously it contained code to compensate for a bug in earlier Java releases, which meant that it stopped working when the Java bug was fixed.

The regular expression parser used for XPath functions such as `matches()`, and also for the pattern facet in XML Schema, now allows constructs such as `[+-]` which were disallowed by the XML Schema Proposed Edited Recommendation (March 2004) and then re-allowed by the Second Edition (October 2004).

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