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

# Version 8.5.1 (26 August 2005)

Saxon 8.5.1 is primarily a maintenance release. All the bugs listed in group v8.5 on the SourceForge bug register are cleared.

In addition there are some enhancements to the handling of multiple modules in XQuery; some minor non-conformances with the current W3C specifications have been cleared; and the performance of certain paths has been tuned. Details appear on the following pages.

- XQuery changes

- XSLT changes

- JAXP API

- Functions and Operators

- Serializer changes

- Extensions

- Internal changes

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