SAXONICA

Saxon Documentation
Full Contents
About Saxon
Changes in this Release
Conditions of Use
Using XSLT 2.0
Using XQuery
Handling Source Documents
XML Schema Processing
The XPath API
Standards Conformance
Extensibility
» | Introduction
| Writing extension functions
| Converting Arguments to Extension Functions
| Converting the Result of an Extension Function
| Writing extension instructions
| Writing input filters
| Writing output filters
| Implementing a collating sequence
| Localizing numbers and dates
| Adding an output encoding
| Writing a URI Resolver for Input Files
| Writing a URI Resolver for Output Files
Saxon Extensions
Sample Saxon Applications
The Saxon SQL Extension
XSLT Elements
XPath 2.0 Expression Syntax
Function Library
XSLT Patterns

# Extensibility

This page describes how to extend the capability of Saxon XSLT Stylesheets and XQuery queries by adding extension functions and other user hooks.

The first two columns of the table below indicate which sections of this page are applicable to XSLT and which are applicable to XQuery.

XSLT | XQuery | Contents
§ § § § § § § § § | § § § § | Writing extension functions Writing extension instructions Writing input filters Writing output filters Implementing a collating sequence Implementing localized numbers and dates Adding an output encoding Writing a URI Resolver for input files Writing a URI Resolver for output files

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