Package net.sf.saxon.sapling

This package defines a public API for constructing trees; it represents trees-under-construction using a lightweight immutable data structure called a sapling; once construction of a sapling tree is complete, it can be copied to form a fully-functional XDM tree in the form of an XdmNode or NodeInfo object.

An overview of the API can be found in the Javadoc for class SaplingNode.

Class Summary

Class	Description
SaplingComment	A comment node in a sapling tree
SaplingDocument	A document node in a sapling tree.
SaplingElement	An element node on a sapling tree.
SaplingNode	This class represents a sapling node.
SaplingProcessingInstruction	A processing-instruction node in a sapling tree
Saplings	This is a non-instantiable class holding a number of convenience methods for creating sapling nodes of different kinds.
SaplingText