SAXONICA

Saxon Documentation
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| Version 8.6.1 (24 November 2005)
| Version 8.6 (3 November 2005)
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| Version 8.5 (2 August 2005)
| Version 8.4 (4 April 2005)
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| 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

# Extensions

The extension functions `saxon:index()` and `saxon:find()` have been changed. These functions allow creation of a user-defined index over a sequence, and fast retrieval of items from the sequence by using the index. The function `saxon:index()` no longer returns the sequence in question, rather it now defines an object of type `{http://saxon.sf.net/java-type}com.saxonica.extra.IndexedSequence` which can be used only as input to the `saxon:find()` function. The `saxon:find()` function now has a one-argument version which returns the sequence in question. This change has been made for robsustness: the existing design was proving excessively difficult to maintain.

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