Saxon Documentation
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About Saxon
Changes in this Release
Licensing
Using XSLT 2.0
Using XQuery
Handling Source Documents
»	Handling Source Documents
	Source Documents on the Command Line
	Collections
	Building a Source Document from an application
	Preloading shared reference documents
	Writing input filters
	XInclude processing
	Saxon and XML 1.1
	JAXP Source Types
	Third-party Object Models: DOM, JDOM, XOM, and DOM4J
	Choosing a Tree Model
	The PTree File Format
	Validation of Source Documents
	Whitespace Stripping in Source Documents
	Streaming of Large Documents
	Document Projection
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

Handling Source Documents

This section discusses the various options in Saxon for handling source documents that form the input to a query or stylesheet.

See the topics below for further information:

• Source Documents on the Command Line

• Collections

• Building a Source Document from an application

• Preloading shared reference documents

• Writing input filters

• XInclude processing

• Saxon and XML 1.1

• JAXP Source Types

• Third-party Object Models: DOM, JDOM, XOM, and DOM4J

• Choosing a Tree Model

• The PTree File Format

• Validation of Source Documents

• Whitespace Stripping in Source Documents

• Streaming of Large Documents

• Document Projection

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