Source code, samples, and other resources

Source code, sample files, and documentation are not included in the same download file as the executable code. Instead, the samples and documentation are available in a separate resources file saxon-resources9-n.zip, which can be downloaded from either the SourceForge Saxon project or the www.saxonica.com sites. The documentation is also available online.

The preprocessed source code for Saxon-HE is issued as a ZIP archive downloadable from the Saxon project site on SourceForge. The raw source is available from the Subversion repository on the dev.saxonica.com site.

Source code

Note that it is not necessary to download or recompile the source code unless you need to make changes (and it is rarely necessary to make changes, because Saxon provides extensive system programming hooks to enable customization). The exception to this is that in Saxon-HE, adapters for external object models, and localization code for non-English languages, are provided in source form only.

The modules included in the source code of Saxon-HE are also used, without modification, in Saxon-PE and Saxon-EE. Source code for the additional components of the commercial editions is not provided. The source code is the same between the Java and .NET platforms: both products are generated from the same source, though there are some modules that apply only to one platform or the other.

User documentation

User documentation (this documentation, together with API specifications for the Java and .NET products) is also available for download from the SourceForge site. The resources download contains exactly the same information as the documentation section of the Saxonica website. It also contains this documentation in its original XML form, together with the schemas and stylesheets used to publish it. Note that online documentation is available only for a few recent Saxon versions; older versions can be downloaded from SourceForge.

Sample applications

The resources download contains a number of sample applications, found in the directory /samples. They are described in the Samples section of the documentation. Most of the samples are equally applicable to the Java and .NET platforms.