SAXONICA

Saxon Documentation
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About Saxon
Changes in this Release
» | Version 8.9 (2007-02-12)
| Version 8.8 (2006-09-05)
| Version 8.7.3 (2006-06-13)
| Version 8.7.2 (2006-04-19)
| Version 8.7.1 (2006-04-13)
| Version 8.7 (2006-02-24)
| 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
XPath API for Java
Saxon on .NET
Extensibility
Saxon Extensions
Sample Saxon Applications
The Saxon SQL Extension
XSLT Elements
XPath 2.0 Expression Syntax
Function Library
Standards Conformance

# XQuery changes

On the command line, it is now possible to set the value of an external variable to a zero-length string by writing `param=`.

Saxon now checks for the new error XQST0093 which was introduced in the Proposed Recommendation. This error makes it illegal for a function or variable in module A to reference a function or variable in module B if there is a function or variable in module B that references one in A. Because this restriction is quite unnecessary and makes it very difficult to write modular applications, there is a new option `declare option saxon:allow-cycles "true"` to disable this check. This new option also disables error XQST0073, which otherwise occurs when two modules in different namespace import each other.

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