Saxon 9.9 documentation - full contents

About Saxon

• Getting Started
  • Getting started with Saxon on the Java platform
  • Getting started with Saxon on the .NET platform
• What is Saxon?
• Choosing the Saxon Edition
• Installation: Java platform
  • Prerequisites
  • Installing the software
  • JAR files included in the product
• Installation: .NET platform
• Saxon Licenses
  • Setting up a license key
  • Verifying a license
  • Checking a license is found
  • Troubleshooting license key problems
• Source code, samples, and other resources
• Historical Note
• Technical Support
  • Lists and forums for getting help
  • Bugs and patches
• Related Products

Change History

• Version 9.9.1 (2019-01-17)
  • XSLT 3.0 implementation
  • XPath 3.1 implementation
  • Functions, operators, and data types for XPath 3.1
  • XML Schema 1.1 implementation
  • Saxon extensions to the W3C XSLT/XQuery specifications
  • S9API interface
  • Changes specific to .NET
  • Internal changes
  • Optimizations and performance improvements
  • Diagnostics and tracing
• Version 9.9 (2018-09-27)
  • Documentation changes
  • Packaging, installation, and licensing changes
  • XSLT 3.0 implementation
  • XQuery 3.1 implementation
  • XPath 3.1 implementation
  • Functions, operators, and data types for XPath 3.1
  • XML Schema 1.1 implementation
  • XQuery Updates implementation
  • Serialization
  • Saxon extensions to the W3C XSLT/XQuery specifications
  • Saxon SQL extension instructions
  • S9API interface
  • Extensibility mechanisms
  • System Programming Interfaces
  • Optimizations and performance improvements
  • Handling of source documents
• Version 9.8 (2017-06-08)
  • Packaging, installation, and licensing changes
  • XSLT 2.0 implementation
  • XSLT 3.0 implementation
  • XQuery 1.0 implementation
  • XQuery 3.0 implementation
  • XQuery 3.1 implementation
  • XPath 3.0 implementation
  • XPath 3.1 implementation
  • Functions, operators, and data types for XPath 3.1
  • XML Schema 1.0 implementation
  • XML Schema 1.1 implementation
  • Serialization
  • Saxon extensions to the W3C XSLT/XQuery specifications
  • S9API interface
  • Changes specific to .NET
  • Command line interfaces
  • Extensibility mechanisms
  • JAXP interface (transformation, XPath, schema processing)
  • System Programming Interfaces
  • Internal changes
  • Optimizations and performance improvements
  • Streamed processing of input documents
  • Support for DOM and other external tree models
  • Localization (natural language support)
• Version 9.7 (2015-11-27)
  • Packaging, installation, and licensing changes
  • XSLT 3.0 implementation
  • XQuery 1.0 implementation
  • XQuery 3.1 implementation
  • XPath 3.1 implementation
  • Functions, operators, and data types for XPath 3.1
  • XML Schema 1.0 implementation
  • Serialization
  • Saxon extensions to the W3C XSLT/XQuery specifications
  • Saxon SQL extension instructions
  • S9API interface
  • Changes specific to .NET
  • Command line interfaces
  • Extensibility mechanisms
  • System Programming Interfaces
  • Internal changes
  • Optimizations and performance improvements
  • Streamed processing of input documents
  • Localization (natural language support)
• Version 9.6 (2014-10-02)
  • XSLT 3.0 implementation
  • XQuery 3.0 implementation
  • XPath 3.0 implementation
  • Functions, operators, and data types for XPath 3.0
  • XML Schema 1.1 implementation
  • Saxon extensions to the W3C XSLT/XQuery specifications
  • S9API interface
  • Command line interfaces
  • Extensibility mechanisms
  • XQJ (JSR 225) interface
  • JAXP interface (transformation, XPath, schema processing)
  • Internal changes
  • Optimizations and performance improvements
  • Handling of source documents
  • Streamed processing of input documents
  • Localization (natural language support)
• Version 9.5.1 (2013-06-19)
  • Packaging, installation, and licensing changes
• Version 9.5 (2013-04-16)
  • Documentation changes
  • Packaging, installation, and licensing changes
  • XSLT 3.0 implementation
  • XQuery 3.0 implementation
  • XPath 3.0 implementation
  • Functions, operators, and data types for XPath 3.0
  • XML Schema 1.0 implementation
  • Serialization
  • Saxon extensions to the W3C XSLT/XQuery specifications
  • Saxon extensions to the W3C XSD specification
  • Saxon SQL extension instructions
  • Changes specific to .NET
  • Command line interfaces
  • Extensibility mechanisms
  • JAXP interface (transformation, XPath, schema processing)
  • System Programming Interfaces
  • Internal changes
  • Optimizations and performance improvements
  • Streamed processing of input documents
  • Support for DOM and other external tree models
• Version 9.4 (2011-12-09)
  • XSLT 2.0 implementation
  • XSLT 3.0 implementation
  • XQuery 3.0 implementation
  • XPath 3.0 implementation
  • Functions, operators, and data types for XPath 3.0
  • XML Schema 1.1 implementation
  • Saxon extensions to the W3C XSLT/XQuery specifications
  • Application Programming Interfaces
  • Command line interfaces
  • System Programming Interfaces
  • Optimizations and performance improvements
  • Handling of source documents
• Version 9.3 (2010-10-30)
  • Documentation changes
  • Packaging, installation, and licensing changes
  • XSLT 3.0 implementation
  • XQuery 3.0 implementation
  • XPath 2.0 implementation
  • XPath 3.0 implementation
  • Functions, operators, and data types for XPath 3.0
  • XML Schema 1.0 implementation
  • XML Schema 1.1 implementation
  • XQuery Updates implementation
  • Serialization
  • Saxon extensions to the W3C XSLT/XQuery specifications
  • Saxon SQL extension instructions
  • S9API interface
  • Changes specific to .NET
  • Command line interfaces
  • Extensibility mechanisms
  • System Programming Interfaces
  • Internal changes
  • Streamed processing of input documents
  • Using Saxon from Ant
• Version 9.2 (2009-08-05)
  • Packaging, installation, and licensing changes
  • XSLT 2.0 implementation
  • XQuery 1.0 implementation
  • XQuery 3.0 implementation
  • Functions, operators, and data types for XPath 2.0
  • XML Schema 1.0 implementation
  • XML Schema 1.1 implementation
  • XQuery Updates implementation
  • Serialization
  • Schema-aware XSLT and XQuery processing
  • Saxon extensions to the W3C XSLT/XQuery specifications
  • Saxon extensions to the W3C XSD specification
  • S9API interface
  • Changes specific to .NET
  • Command line interfaces
  • Extensibility mechanisms
  • XQJ (JSR 225) interface
  • Internal changes
  • Optimizations and performance improvements
  • Handling of source documents
  • Streamed processing of input documents
  • Support for DOM and other external tree models
• Version 9.1 (2008-07-02)
  • XSLT 2.0 implementation
  • XQuery 1.0 implementation
  • XML Schema 1.0 implementation
  • XML Schema 1.1 implementation
  • XQuery Updates implementation
  • Serialization
  • Saxon extensions to the W3C XSLT/XQuery specifications
  • S9API interface
  • Changes specific to .NET
  • Extensibility mechanisms
  • XQJ (JSR 225) interface
  • JAXP interface (transformation, XPath, schema processing)
  • Internal changes
  • Optimizations and performance improvements
  • Diagnostics and tracing
• Version 9.0 (2007-11-03)
  • XSLT 2.0 implementation
  • XPath 2.0 implementation
  • XML Schema 1.0 implementation
  • Serialization
  • Saxon extensions to the W3C XSLT/XQuery specifications
  • S9API interface
  • Changes specific to .NET
  • Command line interfaces
  • XQJ (JSR 225) interface
  • System Programming Interfaces
  • Internal changes
  • Optimizations and performance improvements
  • Diagnostics and tracing
  • Pull processing
  • Localization (natural language support)
• Version 8.9 (2007-02-12)
  • XSLT 2.0 implementation
  • XQuery 1.0 implementation
  • Functions, operators, and data types for XPath 2.0
  • XML Schema 1.0 implementation
  • Changes specific to .NET
  • JAXP interface (transformation, XPath, schema processing)
  • System Programming Interfaces
  • Internal changes
  • Optimizations and performance improvements
  • Handling of source documents
  • Using Saxon from Ant
  • Support for DOM and other external tree models
• Version 8.8 (2006-09-05)
  • XSLT 2.0 implementation
  • Functions, operators, and data types for XPath 2.0
  • Serialization
  • Saxon extensions to the W3C XSLT/XQuery specifications
  • Saxon SQL extension instructions
  • Changes specific to .NET
  • Extensibility mechanisms
  • XQJ (JSR 225) interface
  • System Programming Interfaces
  • Internal changes
  • Optimizations and performance improvements
  • Streamed processing of input documents
  • Localization (natural language support)
• Version 8.7.3 (2006-06-13)
  • Changes specific to .NET
• Version 8.7.2 (2006-04-19)
  • Changes specific to .NET
• Version 8.7.1 (2006-04-13)
  • Serialization
  • Saxon extensions to the W3C XSLT/XQuery specifications
  • Changes specific to .NET
  • Internal changes
  • Optimizations and performance improvements
  • Handling of source documents
  • Support for DOM and other external tree models
  • Pull processing
  • Localization (natural language support)
• Version 8.7 (2006-02-24)
  • XSLT 2.0 implementation
  • XQuery 1.0 implementation
  • XPath 2.0 implementation
  • XML Schema 1.0 implementation
  • Changes specific to .NET
  • System Programming Interfaces
  • Internal changes
  • Pull processing
• Version 8.6.1 (2005-11-24)
  • Saxon extensions to the W3C XSLT/XQuery specifications
  • Internal changes
• Version 8.6 (2005-11-03)
  • XSLT 2.0 implementation
  • XQuery 1.0 implementation
  • Functions, operators, and data types for XPath 2.0
  • XML Schema 1.0 implementation
  • Serialization
  • JAXP interface (transformation, XPath, schema processing)
  • Internal changes
  • Handling of source documents
• Version 8.5.1 (2005-08-26)
  • XSLT 2.0 implementation
  • XQuery 1.0 implementation
  • Functions, operators, and data types for XPath 2.0
  • Serialization
  • Saxon extensions to the W3C XSLT/XQuery specifications
  • JAXP interface (transformation, XPath, schema processing)
  • Internal changes
• Version 8.5 (2005-08-02)
  • XSLT 2.0 implementation
  • XQuery 1.0 implementation
  • XPath 2.0 implementation
  • Functions, operators, and data types for XPath 2.0
  • XML Schema 1.0 implementation
  • Serialization
  • Schema-aware XSLT and XQuery processing
  • Saxon extensions to the W3C XSLT/XQuery specifications
  • JAXP interface (transformation, XPath, schema processing)
  • Internal changes
  • Handling of source documents
  • Streamed processing of input documents
• Version 8.4 (2005-04-04)
  • XSLT 2.0 implementation
  • XQuery 1.0 implementation
  • XPath 2.0 implementation
  • Functions, operators, and data types for XPath 2.0
  • Functions, operators, and data types for XPath 3.0
  • Schema-aware XSLT and XQuery processing
  • Saxon extensions to the W3C XSLT/XQuery specifications
  • System Programming Interfaces
  • Internal changes
  • Pull processing
• Version 8.3 (2005-02-11)
  • XSLT 2.0 implementation
  • XQuery 1.0 implementation
  • XPath 2.0 implementation
  • Functions, operators, and data types for XPath 2.0
  • XML Schema 1.0 implementation
  • Serialization
  • Saxon extensions to the W3C XSLT/XQuery specifications
  • JAXP interface (transformation, XPath, schema processing)
  • Internal changes
  • Support for DOM and other external tree models
  • Pull processing
• Version 8.2 (2004-12-21)
  • XSLT 2.0 implementation
  • XQuery 1.0 implementation
  • XPath 2.0 implementation
  • Functions, operators, and data types for XPath 2.0
  • XML Schema 1.0 implementation
  • Serialization
  • Saxon extensions to the W3C XSLT/XQuery specifications
  • Extensibility mechanisms
  • JAXP interface (transformation, XPath, schema processing)
  • System Programming Interfaces
  • Internal changes
  • Support for DOM and other external tree models
• Version 8.1.1 (2004-10-08)
  • Functions, operators, and data types for XPath 2.0
  • XML Schema 1.0 implementation
  • JAXP interface (transformation, XPath, schema processing)
• Version 8.1 (2004-09-24)
  • Packaging, installation, and licensing changes
  • XSLT 2.0 implementation
  • XQuery 1.0 implementation
  • Functions, operators, and data types for XPath 2.0
  • XML Schema 1.0 implementation
  • Serialization
  • Schema-aware XSLT and XQuery processing
  • Saxon extensions to the W3C XSLT/XQuery specifications
  • Extensibility mechanisms
  • System Programming Interfaces
  • Internal changes
  • Support for DOM and other external tree models
• Version 8.0 (2004-06-01)
  • XSLT 2.0 implementation
  • XQuery 1.0 implementation
  • XPath 2.0 implementation
  • Functions, operators, and data types for XPath 2.0
  • XML Schema 1.0 implementation
  • Saxon extensions to the W3C XSLT/XQuery specifications
  • System Programming Interfaces
  • Internal changes
  • Using Saxon as a Java applet
• Version 7.9 (2004-03-07)
  • XSLT 2.0 implementation
  • XQuery 1.0 implementation
  • XPath 2.0 implementation
  • Functions, operators, and data types for XPath 2.0
  • Saxon extensions to the W3C XSLT/XQuery specifications
  • Internal changes
  • Support for DOM and other external tree models
• Version 7.8 (2003-11-12)
  • XSLT 2.0 implementation
  • XQuery 1.0 implementation
  • XPath 2.0 implementation
  • Functions, operators, and data types for XPath 2.0
  • Saxon extensions to the W3C XSLT/XQuery specifications
  • System Programming Interfaces
  • Internal changes
  • Handling of source documents
  • Support for DOM and other external tree models
• Version 7.7 (2003-10-01)
  • XSLT 2.0 implementation
  • XQuery 1.0 implementation
  • XPath 2.0 implementation
  • Functions, operators, and data types for XPath 2.0
  • Serialization
  • Saxon extensions to the W3C XSLT/XQuery specifications
  • JAXP interface (transformation, XPath, schema processing)
  • Internal changes
• Version 7.6.5 (2003-07-10)
  • XSLT 2.0 implementation
  • XQuery 1.0 implementation
  • Functions, operators, and data types for XPath 2.0
  • Extensibility mechanisms
  • Internal changes
• Version 7.6 (2003-06-22)
  • XSLT 2.0 implementation
  • XQuery 1.0 implementation
  • Functions, operators, and data types for XPath 2.0
  • Saxon extensions to the W3C XSLT/XQuery specifications
  • Internal changes
• Version 7.5.1 (2003-05-21)
  • Documentation changes
  • Packaging, installation, and licensing changes
  • XSLT 2.0 implementation
  • Functions, operators, and data types for XPath 2.0
  • Internal changes
• Version 7.5 (2003-05-02)
  • XSLT 2.0 implementation
  • XPath 2.0 implementation
  • Functions, operators, and data types for XPath 2.0
  • Saxon extensions to the W3C XSLT/XQuery specifications
  • Command line interfaces
  • Extensibility mechanisms
  • Internal changes
  • Optimizations and performance improvements
  • Support for DOM and other external tree models
• Version 7.4 (2003-02-15)
  • XSLT 2.0 implementation
  • XPath 2.0 implementation
  • Functions, operators, and data types for XPath 2.0
  • Serialization
  • Saxon extensions to the W3C XSLT/XQuery specifications
  • Command line interfaces
  • Extensibility mechanisms
  • JAXP interface (transformation, XPath, schema processing)
  • System Programming Interfaces
  • Internal changes
• Version 7.3.1 (2002-12-10)
  • Optimizations and performance improvements
• Version 7.3 (2002-11-18)
  • XSLT 2.0 implementation
  • XPath 2.0 implementation
  • Functions, operators, and data types for XPath 2.0
  • Saxon extensions to the W3C XSLT/XQuery specifications
  • System Programming Interfaces
  • Internal changes
  • Optimizations and performance improvements
  • Handling of source documents
• Version 7.2 (2002-08-28)
  • Packaging, installation, and licensing changes
  • XSLT 2.0 implementation
  • XPath 2.0 implementation
  • Functions, operators, and data types for XPath 2.0
  • Serialization
  • Saxon extensions to the W3C XSLT/XQuery specifications
  • Command line interfaces
  • Extensibility mechanisms
  • Internal changes
  • Optimizations and performance improvements
  • Handling of source documents
• Version 7.1 (2002-04-30)
  • XSLT 2.0 implementation
  • XPath 2.0 implementation
  • Saxon extensions to the W3C XSLT/XQuery specifications
  • Saxon SQL extension instructions
  • Extensibility mechanisms
  • System Programming Interfaces
  • Internal changes
  • Support for DOM and other external tree models
• Version 7.0 (2001-12-20)
  • XSLT 2.0 implementation
  • XPath 2.0 implementation
  • Functions, operators, and data types for XPath 2.0
  • Saxon extensions to the W3C XSLT/XQuery specifications
  • Saxon SQL extension instructions
  • System Programming Interfaces
  • Internal changes

Licensing

• Contributions
• Third Party Source Components
• Redistributed Components
• Published Algorithms and Specifications

Saxon Configuration

• Configuration interfaces
  • JAXP Factory Interfaces
  • Configuration using s9api
  • Configuration using the .NET API
  • Configuration from the command line
  • Configuration using XQJ
  • Configuration when running Ant
• Saxon configuration file
  • The <global> element
  • The <xslt> element
  • The <xsltPackages> element
  • The <xquery> element
  • The <xsd> element
  • The <serialization> element
  • The <resources> element
  • The <collations> element
  • The <localizations> element
• Configuration Features

Using XSLT

• Running XSLT from the Command Line
  • Using the -a option
• Running Saxon XSLT Transformations from Ant
• Invoking XSLT from an application
  • Using s9api for Transformations
  • Using JAXP for Transformations
• Compiling a Stylesheet
• Performance Analysis
• XSLT 3.0 Support

Using XQuery

• Running XQuery from the Command Line
• Running Queries from a Java Application
  • Using s9api for XQuery
  • Invoking XQuery using the XQJ API
• Using XQuery Update
• Calling XQuery Functions from Java
• Result Format
• Compiling Queries
• Performance Analysis
• Extensibility
• Extensions
• Use Cases

Handling Source Documents

• 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
  • Streaming using XSLT 3.0
  • Streaming in XQuery
  • Configuration options for streaming
  • Burst-mode streaming
  • Reading source documents partially
  • Streaming with xsl:iterate
  • Streaming with xsl:merge
  • Streaming Templates
• Document Projection
• References to W3C DTDs

XML Schema Processing

• Running Validation from the Command Line
• Importing and Exporting Schema Component Models
• Controlling Validation from Java
  • Schema Processing using s9api
  • Schema Processing using JAXP
• Parameterizing Schemas
• Running Validation from Ant
• Schema-Aware XSLT from the Command Line
• Schema-Aware XSLT from Java
• Schema-Aware XQuery from the Command Line
• Schema-Aware XQuery from Java
• XML Schema 1.1
  • Assertions on Complex Types
  • Assertions on Simple Types
  • Conditional Type Assignment
  • All Model Groups
  • Open Content
  • Miscellaneous XSD 1.1 Features
• Handling minOccurs and maxOccurs
• Saxon extensions to XML Schema 1.1
  • Messages associated with assertions and other facets
  • The saxon:preprocess facet
  • Saxon extensions to XSD uniqueness and referential constraints
  • Using XPath 3.1 in Assertions
  • Defining variables and parameters

XPath API for Java

• Evaluating XPath Expressions using s9api
• JAXP XPath API
  • Selecting the XPath implementation
  • Setting the context item
  • Return types
  • Additional Saxon methods
  • Calling JAXP XPath extension functions
• NodeInfo interface

Saxon on .NET

• Saxon API for .NET
• XML Parsing in .NET

Extensibility

• Integrated extension functions
  • Java extension functions: simple interface
  • Java extension functions: full interface
  • .NET extension functions
• Writing reflexive extension functions in Java
  • Choosing among overloaded methods
  • Calling Static Methods in a Java Class
  • Calling Java Constructors
  • Calling Java Instance-Level Methods
  • Converting Arguments to Java Extension Functions
    • Converting Method Arguments - General Rules
    • Converting Atomic Values
    • Converting Nodes
    • Converting Wrapped Java Objects
  • Converting the Result of a Java Extension Function
  • Handling exceptions in reflexive extension functions
• Writing reflexive extension functions for .NET
  • Calling Static Methods in a .NET Class
  • Calling .NET Constructors
  • Calling .NET Instance-Level Methods
  • Converting Arguments to .NET Extension Functions
    • Converting Atomic Values and Sequences
    • Converting Nodes and Sequences of Nodes
    • Converting Wrapped .NET Objects
  • Converting the Result of a .NET Extension Function
• Writing XSLT extension instructions
• Extending the Configuration
  • Collation
    • Unicode Collation Algorithm
      • UCA-supported locales
  • Localizing numbers and dates
    • Numbers and Dates from ICU
      • Supported ICU Numbering Schemes
    • Numberings for selected languages
  • Customizing URI Resolution
    • Writing a URI Resolver for Input Files
    • Resolving the URIs of Output Files
    • Writing a URI Resolver for Collections
  • Customizing Serialization

Saxon Extensions

• Extension functions
  • Saxon extension functions
  • EXSLT extensions
  • EXPath extensions
• Extension attributes (XSLT only)
  • saxon:as
  • saxon:assignable
  • saxon:asynchronous
  • saxon:capture
  • saxon:documentation-prefixes
  • saxon:explain
  • saxon:memo-function
  • saxon:options
  • saxon:threads
  • saxon:time
  • saxon:trace
• Syntax Extensions
  • Union types
  • Tuple types
  • Type aliases
  • Simple inline functions
  • Short-circuit boolean operators
• XSLT Patterns
• Additional serialization parameters
  • Serialization parameters
  • Serialization methods
    • saxon:base64Binary serialization method
    • saxon:hexBinary serialization method
    • saxon:ptree serialization method
    • saxon:xquery serialization method
• Extension instructions (XSLT only)
  • saxon:array
  • saxon:array-member
  • saxon:assign
  • saxon:deep-update
  • saxon:do
  • saxon:doctype
  • saxon:entity-ref
  • saxon:import-query
  • saxon6:output
  • saxon:tabulate-maps
  • saxon:type-alias
  • saxon:update
  • saxon:while

Sample Saxon Applications

• Book List Example
• Knight's Tour
• Shakespeare Example
• The Bible Example
• S9API Examples
• JAXP Transformation Examples
• JDOM2 Example
• Example applications for .NET
• Saxon Servlet

Saxon SQL Extension

• SQL extension instructions
  • sql:connect
  • sql:query
  • sql:insert
  • sql:update
  • sql:column
  • sql:delete
  • sql:close
  • sql:execute
  • Example

XSLT Elements

• xsl:accept
• xsl:accumulator
• xsl:accumulator-rule
• xsl:analyze-string
• xsl:apply-imports
• xsl:apply-templates
• xsl:assert
• xsl:attribute
• xsl:attribute-set
• xsl:break
• xsl:call-template
• xsl:catch
• xsl:character-map
• xsl:choose
• xsl:comment
• xsl:context-item
• xsl:copy
• xsl:copy-of
• xsl:decimal-format
• xsl:document
• xsl:element
• xsl:evaluate
• xsl:expose
• xsl:fallback
• xsl:for-each
• xsl:for-each-group
• xsl:fork
• xsl:function
• xsl:global-context-item
• xsl:if
• xsl:import
• xsl:import-schema
• xsl:include
• xsl:iterate
• xsl:key
• xsl:map
• xsl:map-entry
• xsl:matching-substring
• xsl:merge
• xsl:merge-action
• xsl:merge-key
• xsl:merge-source
• xsl:message
• xsl:mode
• xsl:namespace
• xsl:namespace-alias
• xsl:next-iteration
• xsl:next-match
• xsl:non-matching-substring
• xsl:number
• xsl:on-completion
• xsl:on-empty
• xsl:on-non-empty
• xsl:otherwise
• xsl:output
• xsl:output-character
• xsl:override
• xsl:package
• xsl:param
• xsl:perform-sort
• xsl:preserve-space
• xsl:processing-instruction
• xsl:result-document
• xsl:sequence
• xsl:sort
• xsl:source-document
• xsl:stream
• xsl:strip-space
• xsl:stylesheet
• xsl:template
• xsl:text
• xsl:transform
• xsl:try
• xsl:use-package
• xsl:value-of
• xsl:variable
• xsl:when
• xsl:where-populated
• xsl:with-param
• Literal Result Elements
• XSLT Patterns
  • Examples of XSLT 2.0 Patterns
  • Pattern syntax
  • Patterns in XSLT 3.0

XPath Expression Syntax

• Constants
• Variable References
• Function Calls
• Axis steps
• Parentheses and operator precedence
• Filter expressions
• Path expressions
• Simple mapping expressions
• Cast as, Treat as
• Set difference and intersection
• Union
• Arithmetic expressions
• Range expressions
• Comparisons
• Instance of and Castable as
• Conditional Expressions
• Quantified Expressions
• For Expressions
• Let Expressions
• Boolean expressions: AND and OR
• Sequence expressions
• New features in XPath 3.0
• New features in XPath 3.1
• Maps in XPath
• Arrays in XPath

Function Library

• Namespace fn
  • abs
  • accumulator-after
  • accumulator-before
  • adjust-date-to-timezone
  • adjust-dateTime-to-timezone
  • adjust-time-to-timezone
  • analyze-string
  • apply
  • available-environment-variables
  • available-system-properties
  • avg
  • base-uri
  • boolean
  • ceiling
  • codepoint-equal
  • codepoints-to-string
  • collation-key
  • collection
  • compare
  • concat
  • contains
  • contains-token
  • copy-of
  • count
  • current
  • current-date
  • current-dateTime
  • current-group
  • current-grouping-key
  • current-merge-group
  • current-merge-key
  • current-output-uri
  • current-time
  • data
  • dateTime
  • day-from-date
  • day-from-dateTime
  • days-from-duration
  • deep-equal
  • default-collation
  • default-language
  • distinct-values
  • doc
  • doc-available
  • document
  • document-uri
  • element-available
  • element-with-id
  • empty
  • encode-for-uri
  • ends-with
  • environment-variable
  • error
  • escape-html-uri
  • exactly-one
  • exists
  • false
  • filter
  • floor
  • fold-left
  • fold-right
  • for-each
  • for-each-pair
  • format-date
  • format-dateTime
  • format-integer
  • format-number
  • format-time
  • function-arity
  • function-available
  • function-lookup
  • function-name
  • generate-id
  • has-children
  • head
  • hours-from-dateTime
  • hours-from-duration
  • hours-from-time
  • id
  • idref
  • implicit-timezone
  • in-scope-prefixes
  • index-of
  • innermost
  • insert-before
  • iri-to-uri
  • json-doc
  • json-to-xml
  • key
  • lang
  • last
  • load-xquery-module
  • local-name
  • local-name-from-QName
  • lower-case
  • matches
  • max
  • min
  • minutes-from-dateTime
  • minutes-from-duration
  • minutes-from-time
  • month-from-date
  • month-from-dateTime
  • months-from-duration
  • name
  • namespace-uri
  • namespace-uri-for-prefix
  • namespace-uri-from-QName
  • nilled
  • node-name
  • normalize-space
  • normalize-unicode
  • not
  • number
  • one-or-more
  • outermost
  • parse-ietf-date
  • parse-json
  • parse-xml
  • parse-xml-fragment
  • path
  • position
  • prefix-from-QName
  • put
  • QName
  • random-number-generator
  • regex-group
  • remove
  • replace
  • resolve-QName
  • resolve-uri
  • reverse
  • root
  • round
  • round-half-to-even
  • seconds-from-dateTime
  • seconds-from-duration
  • seconds-from-time
  • serialize
  • snapshot
  • sort
  • starts-with
  • static-base-uri
  • stream-available
  • string
  • string-join
  • string-length
  • string-to-codepoints
  • subsequence
  • substring
  • substring-after
  • substring-before
  • sum
  • system-property
  • tail
  • timezone-from-date
  • timezone-from-dateTime
  • timezone-from-time
  • tokenize
  • trace
  • transform
  • translate
  • true
  • type-available
  • unordered
  • unparsed-entity-public-id
  • unparsed-entity-uri
  • unparsed-text
  • unparsed-text-available
  • unparsed-text-lines
  • upper-case
  • uri-collection
  • xml-to-json
  • year-from-date
  • year-from-dateTime
  • years-from-duration
  • zero-or-one
• Namespace math
  • acos
  • asin
  • atan
  • atan2
  • cos
  • exp
  • exp10
  • log
  • log10
  • pi
  • pow
  • sin
  • sqrt
  • tan
• Namespace map
  • contains
  • entry
  • find
  • for-each
  • get
  • keys
  • merge
  • put
  • remove
  • size
• Namespace array
  • append
  • filter
  • flatten
  • fold-left
  • fold-right
  • for-each
  • for-each-pair
  • get
  • head
  • insert-before
  • join
  • put
  • remove
  • reverse
  • size
  • sort
  • subarray
  • tail
• Namespace saxon
  • adjust-to-civil-time
  • array-member
  • base64Binary-to-octets
  • base64Binary-to-string
  • column-number
  • compile-query
  • compile-stylesheet
  • current-mode-name
  • decimal-divide
  • deep-equal
  • discard-document
  • doc
  • eval
  • evaluate
  • evaluate-node
  • expression
  • function-annotations
  • get-pseudo-attribute
  • group-starting
  • has-same-nodes
  • hexBinary-to-octets
  • hexBinary-to-string
  • highest
  • in-summer-time
  • index
  • is-defaulted
  • is-whole-number
  • key-map
  • last-modified
  • leading
  • line-number
  • lowest
  • map-search
  • message-count
  • namespace-node
  • object-map
  • octets-to-base64Binary
  • octets-to-hexBinary
  • parse
  • parse-html
  • path
  • pedigree
  • print-stack
  • query
  • read-binary-resource
  • schema
  • send-mail
  • serialize
  • sort
  • stream
  • string-to-base64Binary
  • string-to-hexBinary
  • string-to-utf8
  • system-id
  • transform
  • timestamp
  • type
  • type-annotation
  • unparsed-entities
  • validate
  • with-pedigree
• Namespace exslt-common
  • node-set
  • object-type
• Namespace exslt-dates-and-times
  • add
  • add-duration
  • date
  • date-time
  • day-abbreviation
  • day-in-month
  • day-in-week
  • day-in-year
  • day-name
  • day-of-week-in-month
  • difference
  • duration
  • hour-in-day
  • leap-year
  • minute-in-hour
  • month-abbreviation
  • month-in-year
  • month-name
  • second-in-minute
  • seconds
  • sum
  • time
  • week-in-month
  • week-in-year
  • year
• Namespace exslt-math
  • abs
  • acos
  • asin
  • atan
  • atan2
  • constant
  • cos
  • exp
  • highest
  • log
  • lowest
  • max
  • min
  • power
  • random
  • sin
  • sqrt
  • tan
• Namespace exslt-random
  • random-sequence
• Namespace exslt-sets
  • difference
  • distinct
  • has-same-node
  • intersection
  • leading
  • trailing
• Namespace expath-archive
  • create
  • create-map
  • delete
  • delete-map
  • entries
  • entries-map
  • entry-names
  • extract-binary
  • extract-binary-map
  • extract-map
  • extract-text
  • extract-text-map
  • options
  • options-map
  • update
  • update-map
• Namespace expath-binary
  • and
  • bin
  • decode-string
  • encode-string
  • find
  • from-octets
  • hex
  • insert-before
  • join
  • length
  • not
  • octal
  • or
  • pack-double
  • pack-float
  • pack-integer
  • pad-left
  • pad-right
  • part
  • shift
  • to-octets
  • unpack-double
  • unpack-float
  • unpack-integer
  • unpack-unsigned-integer
  • xor
• Namespace expath-file
  • append
  • append-binary
  • append-text
  • append-text-lines
  • base-dir
  • children
  • copy
  • create-dir
  • create-temp-dir
  • create-temp-file
  • current-dir
  • delete
  • dir-separator
  • exists
  • is-dir
  • is-file
  • last-modified
  • line-separator
  • list
  • move
  • name
  • parent
  • path-separator
  • path-to-native
  • path-to-uri
  • read-binary
  • read-text
  • read-text-lines
  • resolve-path
  • size
  • temp-dir
  • write
  • write-binary
  • write-text
  • write-text-lines
• Namespace sql
  • connect
  • delete
  • execute
  • insert
  • prepared-statement
  • prepared-query
  • query
  • update

Standards Conformance

• XSLT 2.0 conformance
• XSLT 3.0 conformance
• XPath 2.0 conformance
• XPath 3.1 Conformance
• XQuery 3.1 Conformance
• XML Schema 1.0 Conformance
• XML Schema 1.1 Conformance
• Serialization
• XQuery Update 1.0
• Conformance with other specifications
• Character Encodings Supported
• JAXP Conformance
• XQJ Conformance

Using this Documentation

• User Guide
• Technical Details
  • Application Resources
• Authoring
  • Using Links
    • Child Topic
  • Using Graphics
  • Using Markup
    • Using Tables
    • Using Lists
    • Using Sub-titles

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