Saxon9 Java API Documentation

s9api Interface

net.sf.saxon.s9api

This package provides Saxon's preferred Java API for XSLT, XQuery, XPath, and XML Schema processing.

Other Interfaces

com.saxonica.config	This package contains classes supporting configuration of Saxon-PE and Saxon-EE.
com.saxonica.jaxp	This package contains the Saxon implementation of the JAXP schema validation API.
com.saxonica.schema	This package contains classes used to represent the information in a schema, that is, the schema components.
net.sf.saxon	This package provides the core classes of the SAXON XSLT library.
net.sf.saxon.lib	This package collects together interfaces intended for user applications to implement in order to customize Saxon's behavior, default implementations of these interfaces, and classes containing constants that are used in public Saxon interfaces.
net.sf.saxon.om	This package defines the interface to the Saxon tree structure.
net.sf.saxon.query	This package provides a relatively low-level API for executing XQuery queries directly from a Java application.
net.sf.saxon.sxpath	This package provides an alternative API for executing XPath expressions directly from a Java application: unlike the API in package net.sf.saxon.xpath, these interfaces are not dependent on JAXP 1.3.
net.sf.saxon.type	This package contains classes that implement the XPath 2.0 type system.
net.sf.saxon.value	This package provides classes representing XPath values (that is, the results of an expression).
net.sf.saxon.xpath	This package is Saxon's implementation of the JAXP API designed for executing XPath 1.0 expressions directly from a Java application.
net.sf.saxon.xqj	This package contains an implementation of the XQJ specification defined in JSR 225.

External Interfaces

javax.xml.xquery

Other Packages

com.saxonica	This package together with its subpackages contains the code of Saxon-PE and Saxon-EE, other than the code that is in common with the open-source version Saxon-HE.
com.saxonica.codegen	This package contains the Java code generator for XQuery.
com.saxonica.deploy	The deploy package contains classes used at run-time in support of queries that have been compiled into Java code.
com.saxonica.expr	This package contains classes used to support expressions and instructions that are new in XPath 3.0, XQuery 3.0, or XSLT 3.0, and that don't fit conveniently into a more specialized category (such as streaming).
com.saxonica.expr.ee	This package contains classes used to support expressions and instructions that are specific to Saxon-EE, and that don't fit conveniently into a more specialized category (such as streaming).
com.saxonica.functions.extfn	The package com.saxonica.extfn contains implementations of extension functions in the Saxon namespace.
com.saxonica.functions.hof	The package com.saxonica.hof contains code to support higher-order functions.
com.saxonica.functions.map	This package implements maps, a Saxon extension to the XSLT and XQuery specification that provides a dictionary-like data structure.
com.saxonica.functions.xpath3	This package implements functions that appear for the first time in the third version of the XPath function library, currently titled Functions and Operators 1-1, other than functions that naturally fit into another category, such as higher-order functions.
com.saxonica.functions.xslt3
com.saxonica.ptree	The package com.saxonica.ptree contains classes used to support the persistent tree model in Saxon, allowing binary storage of XML documents on disc.
com.saxonica.pull	This package extends the pull API for Saxon that is provided in package net.sf.saxon.pull in Saxon-HE.
com.saxonica.schema.fsa	The package com.saxonica.fsa contains classes used to implement the finite state machines used when validating document instances against a schema.
com.saxonica.schema.sdoc	This package contains code used to import a schema.
com.saxonica.serialize	This package contains additions to the serializer that are specific to Saxon-PE and Saxon-EE.
com.saxonica.stream	This package and its subpackages contains classes used to support streaming and document projection.
com.saxonica.stream.adjunct	This package contains classes used to support streaming.
com.saxonica.stream.feed	This package contains classes used to support streaming.
com.saxonica.stream.om	The package com.saxonica.stream.om contains internal code to support executing of streaming templates in XSLT.
com.saxonica.stream.watch
com.saxonica.update	This package contains classes used to support XQuery Update.
com.saxonica.validate	The validation package contains classes used to validate document instances against a schema.
com.saxonica.xsltextn	This package contains classes used at compile time to support extensions to XSLT beyond 2.0: both facilities in the working draft of XSLT 3.0, and extensions specific to Saxon.
net.sf.saxon.dom	This package provides glue classes that enable Saxon to process a source document supplied as a DOM tree in the form of a DOMSource object; it also provides classes that present a DOM view of Saxon's native tree structures.
net.sf.saxon.event	This package provides classes that feed SAX-like events from one tree to another.
net.sf.saxon.evpull	This package provides classes that implement a StAX-like pull pipeline in which a recieving component makes calls on a provider component to supply information from the XML stream one event at a time.
net.sf.saxon.expr	This package provides classes associated with XPath expression handling.
net.sf.saxon.expr.instruct	This package provides classes for the compiled representation of the various elements and other instructions found in an XSLT stylesheet.
net.sf.saxon.expr.number	This package provides classes associated with numbering and the xsl:number element.
net.sf.saxon.expr.sort	This package provides utility routines for sorting and grouping.
net.sf.saxon.functions	This package provides implementations of all the core functions available for use in XPath expressions.
net.sf.saxon.functions.regex	This package contains the code to map XML Schema and XPath regular expressions to the regular expression engine of the underlying Java platform.
net.sf.saxon.java	This package contains Saxon code that is specific to the Java platform, as distinct from .NET
net.sf.saxon.option.dom4j	This package provides glue classes that enable Saxon to process a source document supplied as a DOM4J tree (see http://www.dom4j.org).
net.sf.saxon.option.exslt	This package provides implementations of the functions defined in EXSLT.
net.sf.saxon.option.jdom	This package provides glue classes that enable Saxon to process a source document supplied as a JDOM tree (see http://www.jdom.org).
net.sf.saxon.option.local
net.sf.saxon.option.sql	This package provides some sample extension elements for loading data into an SQL database.
net.sf.saxon.option.xom	This package provides glue classes that enable Saxon to process a source document supplied as a XOM tree (see http://www.cafeconleche.org/XOM).
net.sf.saxon.pattern	This package provides classes associated with XSLT pattern handling.
net.sf.saxon.pull	This package provides classes that interface Saxon to an XML parser that supplies data in the form of a stream of events.
net.sf.saxon.serialize	This package contains code for serializing trees using the standard W3C-defined serialization methods (xml, html, text).
net.sf.saxon.serialize.charcode	This package provides classes for handling different character sets, especially when serializing the output of a query or transformation.
net.sf.saxon.serialize.codenorm	This package contains the code to implement Unicode normalization.
net.sf.saxon.style	This package provides classes used during the compilation of an XSLT stylesheet.
net.sf.saxon.trace	This package provides an interface to Saxon tracing and debugging capabilities.
net.sf.saxon.trans	This package provides a miscellaneous collection of helper classes for XSLT transformation.
net.sf.saxon.tree.iter
net.sf.saxon.tree.linked	This package defines the implementation of the so-called "standard tree" structure.
net.sf.saxon.tree.tiny	This package is an implementation of the Saxon internal tree structure, designed to minimize memory usage, and the costs of allocating and garbage-collecting Java objects.
net.sf.saxon.tree.util
net.sf.saxon.tree.wrapper