net.sf.saxon
Class Version

java.lang.Object
  net.sf.saxon.Version

public final class Version
extends Object

The Version class holds the SAXON version information.

Method Summary

static String	getMajorReleaseDate() Get the issue date of the most recent major release of the product, that is, a release offering new functionality rather than just bug fixes (typically, a release in which the first two digits of the version number change, for example 9.2 to 9.3).
static String	getProductName() Return the name of this product.
static String	getProductTitle() Get a message used to identify this product when a transformation is run using the -t option
static String	getProductVariantAndVersion(Configuration config) Get the version number of the schema-aware version of the product
static String	getProductVersion() Get the user-visible version number of this version of the product
static String	getReleaseDate() Get the issue date of this version of the product.
static int[]	getStructuredVersionNumber() Get the four components of the structured version number.
static String	getWebSiteAddress() Return a web site address containing information about the product.
static String	getXSLVersionString() Get the version of the XSLT specification that this product supports
static void	main(String[] args) Invoking net.sf.saxon.Version from the command line outputs the build number

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

getProductName

public static String getProductName()

Return the name of this product. Supports the XSLT 2.0 system property xsl:product-name

Returns:

the string "SAXON"

getProductVariantAndVersion

public static String getProductVariantAndVersion(Configuration config)

Get the version number of the schema-aware version of the product

Returns:

the version number of this version of Saxon, as a string

getProductVersion

public static String getProductVersion()

Get the user-visible version number of this version of the product

Returns:

the version number of this version of Saxon, as a string: for example "9.0.1"

getStructuredVersionNumber

public static int[] getStructuredVersionNumber()

Get the four components of the structured version number. This is used in the .NET product to locate an assembly in the dynamic assembly cache: the assumption is that the third and fourth components represent implementation changes rather than interface changes

Returns:

the four components of the version number, as an array: for example {9, 0, 1, 1}

getReleaseDate

public static String getReleaseDate()

Get the issue date of this version of the product. This will be the release date of the latest maintenance release

Returns:

the release date, as an ISO 8601 string

getMajorReleaseDate

public static String getMajorReleaseDate()

Get the issue date of the most recent major release of the product, that is, a release offering new functionality rather than just bug fixes (typically, a release in which the first two digits of the version number change, for example 9.2 to 9.3).

Returns:

the release date, as an ISO 8601 string

getXSLVersionString

public static String getXSLVersionString()

Get the version of the XSLT specification that this product supports

Returns:

the string 2.0

getProductTitle

public static String getProductTitle()

Get a message used to identify this product when a transformation is run using the -t option

Returns:

A string containing both the product name and the product version

getWebSiteAddress

public static String getWebSiteAddress()

Return a web site address containing information about the product. Supports the XSLT system property xsl:vendor-url

Returns:

the string "http://saxon.sf.net/"

main

public static void main(String[] args)

Invoking net.sf.saxon.Version from the command line outputs the build number

Parameters:

args - not used