09 December 2011  Saxon 9.4 published, the first major release of "server-side Saxon" for over a year, with many advances: perhaps the most dramatic is the introduction of byte code generation (for Java, or IL code generation on .NET).
30 April 2012  Saxon Client Edition's second beta version (0.2) released, this introduces a JavaScript API providing access to several new core capabilities. There have also been improvements in areas such as HTML namespace handling (for SVG etc.) and diagnostics features.

Saxon Client Edition

On 27 March 2011 at the XML Prague conference Saxon Client Edition (Saxon-CE) was announced. This brought XSLT 2.0 processing to the web browser for the first time. Saxon-CE features interactive event-driven templates and should work in any recent browser with JavaScript enabled - including mobile devices.

Michael Kay's paper at XML Prague is available in the conference proceedings

The product has progressed to the beta stage after successful completion of alpha testing, but please note that, as a beta, it is intended only for testing and evaluation. Documentation, demos and sample applications are available here, and you can download and register the latest release from here.

Some most creative demonstrations, published by Saxon-CE early-adopters, have brought us a tantalising glimpse of the potential for this new development platform (and a collection of of valuable test cases). Many thanks, and please keep these coming!

Saxon 9.4

For the established server-side products (Saxon-EE, Saxon-PE, and Saxon-HE), the latest release is 9.4

The most important enhancements in 9.4 are:

• Byte code generation in Saxon-EE for both the Java and .NET platforms, giving typically a 25% performance boost
• A complete, conformant implementation of XML Schema 1.1
• Greatly increased coverage of the draft XPath 3,0 and XQuery 3.0 specifications
• ... and much more

The documentation is here, and existing users can download the code from here.

You can download an evaluation copy of the software from here.

Saxon-EE and Saxon-PE licenses issued after will work with the current release. For those with earlier licenses, simply enter the existing license number when you reorder, and we will refund its residual value, based on when it was purchased.