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    <h1>Saxon technical support</h1>
    <p>For technical support, please register at <a target="_blank" class="bodylink"
      href="https://saxonica.plan.io/">saxonica.plan.io</a>; or if you prefer to keep things private, email
      <email address="support@saxonica.com" title="support@saxonica.com"></email>. See below for further
      details:</p> 
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        <td><p><b>Public forums</b></p></td>
        <td><p>If you need help using XSLT, XQuery, XPath, or XSD, and the question isn't specific
            to the Saxon product, we suggest you ask first on a public forum: we have listed some in
            the <a class="bodylink" href="#public-resources">Public resources</a> section
          below.</p></td>
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        <td><p><b>Saxon forum &amp; bug tracker</b></p></td>
        <td><p>If the question is specific to Saxon (whether the commercial or open-source version)
            please use either the bug tracker or the discussion forum in the appropriate section of
            the <b>Saxonica community site</b>
            <a target="_blank" class="bodylink" href="https://saxonica.plan.io/">saxonica.plan.io</a>
            (a <a target="_blank" class="bodylink" href="https://www.redmine.org">Redmine</a>
            database).</p>
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        <td><p><b>Email</b></p></td>
        <td><p>Registered users of the commercial Saxon editions can use the email <email
          address="support@saxonica.com" title="support@saxonica.com"></email> 
            for support enquiries, in case you want to keep the discussion confidential: but it's
            easier for us to keep track if you use the public database, and it benefits other users
            who can share your experience.</p></td>
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    <a id="public-resources" class="anchor"></a><h3>Public resources</h3>
    <p>A good general resource for all programming problems is <a class="bodylink"
        href="https://stackoverflow.com">Stack Overflow</a>. There is a tag <code>Saxon</code> for
      Saxon-related questions on this site, and we try to keep an eye on it, but it is primarily a
      way of getting help from other Saxon users, not from Saxonica.</p>
    <p>For more specialist questions, or deeper discussions on the XSLT language, a good place to
      meet the experts is <a target="_blank" class="bodylink"
        href="https://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list/index.html">Mulberry Technologies' XSL list</a>.</p>
    <p>For XQuery issues both the <a target="_blank" class="bodylink"
        href="http://www.x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk">talk@x-query.com</a> mailing list and <a
        target="_blank" class="bodylink" href="https://stackoverflow.com/">Stack Overflow</a> are
      particularly helpful.</p>
    <h2>Bug fixes and maintenance releases</h2>
    <p>If you find a bug we will usually fix it on the current major release branch; in a few cases
      if it's serious enough we might also fix it on the previous major release branch. Maintenance
      releases are typically issued every couple of months, but it depends on the number and
      severity of bugs that need to be cleared. To use a maintenance release of one of the
      commercial products, you will need a license key that has not expired; we normally issue
      license keys that give access to maintenance releases for one year from the date of
      purchase.</p>
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      <h2>Commercial support</h2>
      <p>For commercial enquiries, contact <email
        address="saxon-orders@saxonica.com" title="saxon-orders@saxonica.com"></email>.</p>
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      <h2>Resource quick links</h2>
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          <a class="title" target="_blank" href="https://saxonica.plan.io/"><b>Saxonica community
              site</b> saxonica.plan.io - forum and bug tracker</a>
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          <a class="title" target="_blank" href="https://stackoverflow.com"><b>Stack Overflow</b> -
            use the <code>Saxon</code> tag</a>
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      </ul>
      <p>For information about support specific for our open-source products, see <a class="bodylink"
          href="opensource.xml">Open-source support</a>.</p>
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