Handling Source Documents

This section discusses the various options in Saxon for handling source documents (typically XML) that form the input to a query or stylesheet.

See the topics below for further information:

• Source Documents on the Command Line

• Collections

• Building a Source Document from an application

• 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, JDOM, 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