SAXONICA

Saxon Documentation
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About Saxon
Changes in this Release
| 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
Standards Conformance
Extensibility
Saxon Extensions
Sample Saxon Applications
The Saxon SQL Extension
XSLT Elements
XPath 2.0 Expression Syntax
Function Library
XSLT Patterns

# Version 8.0 (1 June 2004)

This page lists changes in Saxon 8.0 (issued 2004-06-01) relative to version 7.9.1. The list applies both to the open source Saxon-B 8.0 product and to Saxon-SA, the schema-aware product.

Some of the changes made in this release reflect Working Group decisions made subsequent to the publication of the November 2003 drafts. In most cases these decisions have been announced publicly on the public-qt-comments list.

For a change history prior to version 8.0, see the SourceForge site.

The changes in version 8.0 are listed under the following headings:

- Defects cleared in Version 8.0

- XSLT changes

- XPath changes (also affecting XQuery)

- XQuery changes

- Functions and Operators

- Schema processing

- XPath API changes

- Changes to extension functions

- Changes to internal APIs

- Implementation changes

- Running Saxon as an Applet

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