
   [1]saxonica.com
   [2]Saxon Documentation
   [3]Full Contents
   [4]About Saxon
   [5]Introduction
   [6]Getting Started
   [7]What is Saxon?
   [8]Choosing a software package
   [9]Installation: Java platform
   [10]Installation: .NET platform
   [11]Historical Note
   [12]Technical Support
   [13]The Saxon configuration file
   [14]Related Products
   [15]Changes in this Release
   [16]Licensing
   [17]Using XSLT 2.0
   [18]Using XQuery
   [19]Handling Source Documents
   [20]XML Schema Processing
   [21]XPath API for Java
   [22]Saxon on .NET
   [23]Extensibility
   [24]Saxon Extensions
   [25]Sample Saxon Applications
   [26]The Saxon SQL Extension
   [27]XSLT Elements
   [28]XPath 2.0 Expression Syntax
   [29]Function Library
   [30]Standards Conformance

About Saxon

   Release 9.2.0.6 is the latest milestone in Saxonica's implementation of the
   [31]XPath 2.0, [32]XSLT 2.0, and [33]XQuery 1.0 specifications.

   This is the first functionality release in a year, and there are many
   new features and performance improvements. A [34]full list is available
   and there is also a [35]summary of the highlights.

   A significant change in this release is repackaging of the
   functionality: instead of the two products Saxon-B (open source) and
   Saxon-SA (commercial), there are now three editions: home,
   professional, and enterprise (HE, PE, and EE). The Home Edition remains
   open source, under the same very liberal licensing rules, but some of
   the more advanced features that were present in Saxon-B have not been
   retained in Saxon-HE, and are instead available only in the commercial
   packages Saxon-PE and Saxon-EE. Saxon-B users whose applications depend
   on these features have a number of options available: upgrading to the
   professional or enterprise editions, modifying the application so it no
   longer depends on these features, implementing equivalent functionality
   as a home-grown extension to Saxon-HE, or, of course, staying with
   Saxon-B 9.1, which will remain available on the SourceForge site
   indefinitely.

   Most of the new functionality in this release is available only in the
   commercial offerings.

   The specifications listed above are now official W3C Recommendations.
   Saxon is fully conformant with the final version of the specs,
   providing all the mandatory features of those specifications and nearly
   all the optional features. In most cases Saxon 9.2 implements the
   changes documented in the latest errata to these specifications, or
   equivalently, the proposed second editions of the specifications
   published on 21 April 2009. For further details on conformance, see the
   [36]conformance page.

   Saxon continues its tradition of implementing new W3C drafts as soon as
   they become available. This release extends its support for XQuery
   Updates 1.0 and XML Schema 1.1, and introduces support for selected
   features from the XQuery 1.1 working draft. It also provides early
   implementation (in the form of vendor extensions) for some of the new
   facilities for streaming currently being discussed in the XSL Working
   Group, which are not yet published.

   Like previous releases, this version is shipped simultaneously for the
   Java and .NET platforms.

   This documentation covers all versions of the product, with differences
   noted where applicable. For a summary of the differences, see
   [37]Product Packages.
   This documentation (including full API documentation for both the Java
   and .NET platforms) is provided on the [38]Saxonica web site and is
   also available for download either from [39]SourceForge or from
   [40]Saxonica. The download file is named saxon-resources9-n.zip, and is
   separate from the software download. It includes documentation for both
   Saxon-B and Saxon-EE, on both platforms. The file also includes sample
   applications and Saxon-B source code.

   [41]JavaDoc API specifications and [42].NET API specifications are also
   available.

   A full [43]change log is provided.

   If you are looking for an XSLT 1.0 or XPath 1.0 processor, [44]Saxon
   6.5.5 remains available. However, Saxon 9.2 is capable of executing
   XSLT 1.0 stylesheets with identical results in the vast majority of
   cases, often with much better performance, so you may prefer to use the
   latest release.

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References

   1. http://www.saxonica.com/
   2. http://www.saxonica.com/index.html
   3. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/contents.html
   4. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/index/intro.html
   5. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/index/intro.html
   6. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/index/gettingstarted.html
   7. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/index/whatis.html
   8. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/index/packages.html
   9. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/index/installationjava.html
  10. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/index/installationdotnet.html
  11. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/index/historical.html
  12. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/index/support.html
  13. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/index/configuration-file.html
  14. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/index/related.html
  15. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/changes/intro.html
  16. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/conditions/intro.html
  17. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/using-xsl/intro.html
  18. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/using-xquery/intro.html
  19. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/sourcedocs/intro.html
  20. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/schema-processing/intro.html
  21. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/xpath-api/intro.html
  22. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/dotnet/intro.html
  23. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/extensibility/intro.html
  24. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/extensions/intro.html
  25. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/samples/intro.html
  26. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/sql-extension/intro.html
  27. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/xsl-elements/intro.html
  28. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/expressions/intro.html
  29. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/functions/intro.html
  30. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/conformance/intro.html
  31. http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/
  32. http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/
  33. http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/
  34. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/changes/intro.html
  35. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/changes/intro/highlights92.html
  36. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/conformance/intro.html
  37. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/index/packages.html
  38. http://www.saxonica.com/
  39. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=29872
  40. http://www.saxonica.com/download_page_fs.html
  41. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/javadoc/index.html
  42. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/dotnetdoc/index.html
  43. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/changes/intro.html
  44. http://saxon.sourceforge.net/saxon6.5.5/
  45. http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.2/index/gettingstarted.html
