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

# Implementation changes

The way that tracing works (the -T option) has been changed. If tracing is enabled at compile time, a trace instruction is wrapped around every "real" instruction to contain the trace logic. This means there are no run-time checks whether tracing is enabled, except for the instructions such as `xsl:apply-templates` and `xsl:for-each` that trace changes to the context item.

In XQuery, the code generated for tree construction is in many cases more efficient, avoiding the need to construct temporary trees and then copy them unnecessarily.

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