Handling XML Documents

This section discusses the various options in Saxon for handling XML documents. These might form the input or output of a query or stylesheet, or they might be used directly by application code written (say) in Java.

See the topics below for further information:

Source Documents on the Command Line
Collections
Building a Source Document from lexical XML
Building XML Trees Programmatically
Preloading shared reference documents
Using XML Catalogs
Writing input filters
XInclude processing
Controlling Parsing of Source Documents
Saxon and XML 1.1
JAXP Source Types
Third-party Object Models: Axiom, DOM, JDOM2, XOM, and DOM4J
Choosing a Tree Model
The Domino Tree Model
The PTree File Format
Validation of Source Documents
Whitespace Stripping in Source Documents
Streaming of Large Documents
Document Projection
References to W3C DTDs