This page lists some of the most important new features introduced in Saxon 9.2.
Saxon 9.2 requires JDK 1.5
Saxon 9.2 comes in three editions: Home, Professional, and Enterprise, replacing the previous split between Basic and Schema-Aware.
Home Edition (HE) includes most of what was in Saxon-B, with the exception of Saxon extensions and extensibility features
Professional Edition (PE) includes everything that was in Saxon-B, plus some additional features previously only available in Saxon-SA, such as XQuery 1.1 support and higher-order functions
Enteprise Edition (EE) is the successor to Saxon-SA, and includes all the capability of Saxon-SA plus new features introduced in Saxon 9.2.
Configuration information can now be specified in an optional configuration file
A new mechanism for creating "integrated extension functions" is defined, removing the reliance on Java reflection and the dependency on ad-hoc rules for conversions between XPath types and Java classes
Separate compilation of query modules in now possible (Saxon-EE only)
Support for XQuery Updates is aligned with the Candidate Recommendation
Selected features from the draft XQuery 1.1 Recommendation are implemented, notably Higher Order Functions
A number of Saxon extension functions have been reimplemented to use higher order functions, leading to a slight change in interface
More features from XML Schema 1.1 have been implemented, including "open content", and the ability for an element to belong to multiple substitution groups.
More capabilities are available for running transformations in streaming mode, in particular, it is now possible to traverse a streamed document using recursive template rules provided that the template rules are sufficiently simple.
