Sample Saxon applications

Saxonica provides an additional resources download which contains various sample XML resources, and several sample applications. The download file is named saxon-resources-11.zip, and is separate from the software download. It is available from Saxonica downloads. Unzip the contents of this file into the same directory as the Saxon software. The sample applications are found in the directory /samples.

The saxon-resources download contains various example XML files, stylesheets, queries, and schemas - in particular for the Book list, Knight's tour, Shakespeare, and Bible examples. Also provided are a number of sample Java and .NET programs which demonstrate ways of using the Saxon APIs (see the samples/java and samples/cs directories). Many of the examples in the sample programs use the XML resources as sample data.

The use of some of these sample applications is described in this section of the documentation:

• Shakespeare XPath sample application
• S9API examples
• JAXP transformation examples
• JDOM2 example
• SaxonCS API examples for .NET
• Saxon servlet

Information about some of the other sample applications is documented elsewhere:

• see JAXP XPath API for details on the ApplyXPathJAXP.java sample (enhanced version of JAXP 1.3 sample)
• see Invoking XQuery using the XQJ API for information on the XQJExamples.java sample
• see Schema validation using JAXP for information on the QuickValidator.java, SchemaValidatorExample.java, and SchemaValidatorHandlerExample.java samples which demonstrate the use of JAXP validation APIs