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

Changes in Functions and Operators

Constructor functions now accept an empty sequence and return an empty sequence: for example xs:integer(@x) returns an empty sequence if there is no attribute x. Previously this was a dynamic error.