SAXONICA

Saxon Documentation
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About Saxon
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| Version 8.6.1 (24 November 2005)
| Version 8.6 (3 November 2005)
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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

# Schema processing

The product build structure has been changed to generate two products, Saxon-B and Saxon-SA. Saxon-B is the open source product; Saxon-SA contains additional functionality to support schema processing. The basic hooks to plug in schema processing were already present in Saxon 7.9.1. The code in Saxon-B is all present in identical form in Saxon-SA; Saxon-SA does not change the basic open source code, it adds extra components.

The code for reading and analysing schemas was originally derived from similar code in Castor. It has been almost totally rewritten and greatly enhanced, though parts of the original design remain intact. The run-time validation code (to validate instance documents against a schema) is completely new.

For further information see Schema Processing.

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