Saxon architecture

The diagram below provides an overview of the architecture of the full Saxon-EE product, showing the main components and dataflows. Details can be found in the documentation.

Guide to terminology

• Bytecode: Code interpreted by Java VM
• EXEC: Internal compiled expression tree
• JSON: File in JSON format
• SCM: Schema Component Model (compiled schema)
• SEF: Stylesheet Export File (compiled stylesheet)
• Tree: Tree representation of XML document
• TXT: Plain text file
• XML: eXtensible Markup Language
• XQ: XQuery query
• XSD: XML Schema Document
• XSLT: eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations