Using XML Schema (XSD)

Saxon can be used as a free-standing schema processor in its own right, either from the command line or from a Java application. In addition, Saxon can be used as a schema-aware XSLT processor or as a schema-aware XQuery processor.

This section covers the following topics:

Running Validation from the Command Line
Importing and Exporting Schema Component Models
Controlling Validation from Java
Parameterizing Schemas
Running Validation from Ant
Schema-Aware XSLT from the Command Line
Schema-Aware XSLT from Java
Schema-Aware XQuery from the Command Line
Schema-Aware XQuery from Java
XML Schema 1.1
Handling minOccurs and maxOccurs
Handling Absent Components
Saxon extensions to XML Schema 1.1

Saxon-EE supports the schema validation APIs in JAXP 1.3, as well as its own native APIs.