Saxon Documentation

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About Saxon

Changes in this Release

Conditions of Use

Using XSLT 2.0

Using XQuery
	Introduction
	Running XQuery from the Command Line
	Invoking XQuery using the XQJ API
	Invoking XQuery from an application
	Calling XQuery Functions from Java
	Result Format
	Compiling Queries to Java code
	Extensibility
	Extensions
»	Use Cases

Handling Source Documents

XML Schema Processing

XPath API for Java

Saxon on .NET

Extensibility

Saxon Extensions

Sample Saxon Applications

The Saxon SQL Extension

XSLT Elements

XPath 2.0 Expression Syntax

Function Library

Standards Conformance

Use Cases

Saxon runs all the XQuery Use Cases.

The relevant queries (some of which have been corrected from those published by W3C) are included in the Saxon distribution (folder use-cases) together with batch scripts for running them. A few additional use cases have been added to show features that would otherwise not be exercised. A separate script is available for running the STRONG use cases since these require Saxon-SA.

Also included in the distribution is a query samples/query/tour.xq. This is a query that generates a knight's tour of the chessboard. It is written as a demonstration of recursive functional programming in XQuery. It requires no input document. You need to supply a parameter on the command line indicating the square where the knight should start, for example start=h8. The output is an HTML document.