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                <p>Developers of the Saxon processor for XSLT, XQuery, and XML
                    Schema, including the only XSLT 3.0 conformant toolset.</p>
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                <p>Saxonica was founded by Dr Michael Kay in 2004. Over the years, we have delivered: </p>
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                    <li>over <span class="larger-font">11,000</span> paid-for licenses</li>
                    <li>to more than <span class="larger-font">1,300</span> clients</li>
                    <li>of whom over <span class="larger-font">200</span> have bought a site license</li>
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                <p>More than <span class="larger-font">170</span> software vendors have built Saxon into their own applications.</p>
                <p>Microsoft, for example, has chosen Saxon to provide XSLT 3.0 capability within
                    <a class="bodylink" target="_blank"
                        href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/biztalk/install-and-config-guides/whats-new-in-biztalk-server-2020">BizTalk
                        Server 2020</a>.</p>
                <p>6 of the world's top 10 software vendors are Saxonica clients.</p>
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                    <td>Get an evaluation license for Saxon.</td>
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                    <td>Download Saxon products.</td>
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                    <td><a class="block-link"
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                        ><p><b>4 June 2026</b><br />
                            The team will be hosting a Saxonica User Group Meeting at <b class="highlight">XML Prague 2026</b>.</p></a></td>
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            <h2>Recent news</h2>
            <p>Latest announcements are listed below, for full history see <a href="../about/news.xml"
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                    <td><a class="block-link" href="../download/download_page.xml"><p><b>10 July 2026</b><br />
                        <b class="highlight">Saxon 12.10</b> maintenance release for Java, .NET, and
                        C/C++, PHP and Python.</p></a></td>
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                    <td><a class="block-link" target="_blank"
                        href="https://www.saxonica.com/papers/xmlprague-2026mp.pdf">
                        <p><b>6 June 2024</b><br /> Matt Patterson presented the paper
                            <b class="highlight">The story of Gerald Cinamon's germandesigners.net</b> at
                            XML Prague 2026.</p></a></td>
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                    <td><a class="block-link" target="_blank"
                        href="https://www.saxonica.com/papers/xmlprague-2026mhk.pdf">
                        <p><b>5 June 2026</b><br /> Michael Kay presented the paper
                            <b class="highlight">Implementing Maps for XPath 4.0</b> at
                            XML Prague 2026.</p></a></td>
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                    <td><a class="block-link"
                        href="https://blog.saxonica.com/announcements/2026/05/21-saxonica.html" 
                        ><p><b>4 June 2026</b><br />
                            The team hosted the Saxonica User Group Meeting at <b class="highlight">XML Prague 2026</b>.</p></a></td>
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                    <td><a class="block-link" href="../download/download_page.xml"><p><b>29 May 2026</b><br />
                        <b class="highlight">Saxon 13.0</b> first release for Java, .NET, and C/C++, PHP and Python.</p></a></td>
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                    <td><a class="block-link" href="../about/contact.xml#sheila"><p><b>24 November 2025</b><br />
                        Sheila Thomson has joined the development team at Saxonica.</p></a></td>
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                    <td><a class="block-link" href="https://blog.saxonica.com/oneil/2025/11/14-graalvm-community-summit.html"
                        ><p><b>22 October 2025</b><br />O'Neil Delpratt and Matt Patterson
                            represented Saxonica at the GraalVM community summit in Zurich.</p></a></td>
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                    <td><a class="block-link" href="../download/download_page.xml"><p><b>12 September 2025</b><br />
                        <b class="highlight">Saxon 12.9</b> maintenance release for Java, .NET, and
                        C/C++, PHP and Python.</p></a></td>
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                    <td><a class="block-link" target="_blank"
                        href="https://balisage.net/Proceedings/vol30/html/NTovey-Walsh01/BalisageVol30-NTovey-Walsh01.html"
                        ><p><b>7 August 2025</b><br />Norm Tovey-Walsh presented the paper <b
                            class="highlight">Pipe cleaner: ensuring the correctness of XProc pipelines</b> at Balisage 2025.</p></a></td>
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                    <td><a class="block-link" target="_blank"
                        href="https://balisage.net/Proceedings/vol30/html/Lockett01/BalisageVol30-Lockett01.html"
                        ><p><b>6 August 2025</b><br />Debbie Lockett presented the paper <b
                            class="highlight">SaxonJS 3 coding improvements</b> at Balisage 2025.</p></a></td>
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                    <td><a class="block-link" target="_blank"
                        href="https://balisage.net/Proceedings/vol30/html/Kay01/BalisageVol30-Kay01.html"
                        ><p><b>5 August 2025</b><br />Michael Kay presented the paper <b
                            class="highlight">JNodes: a new model for navigating JSON trees</b> at
                            Balisage 2025.</p></a></td>
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                    <td><a class="block-link" href="../download/download_page.xml"><p><b>3 July 2025</b><br />
                        <b class="highlight">Saxon 12.8</b> and <b class="highlight">Saxon 11.7</b>
                        maintenance releases for Java, .NET, and C/C++, PHP and Python.</p></a></td>
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                    <td><a class="block-link" target="_blank"
                        href="https://markupuk.org/webhelp/index.html#markupuk2025.html"
                        ><p><b>7 June 2025</b><br />Norm Tovey-Walsh presented the paper <b
                            class="highlight">Surfing the web with XProc</b> at Markup UK 2025.</p></a></td>
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                    <td><a class="block-link" target="_blank"
                        href="https://markupuk.org/webhelp/index.html#ar04.html"
                        ><p><b>6 June 2025</b><br />Michael Kay presented the paper <b
                            class="highlight">Processing JSON with Template Rules</b> at Markup UK 2025.</p></a></td>
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                    <td><a class="block-link" href="../saxonjs/index.xml"><p><b>2 June 2025</b><br />
                        <b class="highlight">SaxonJS 3.0.0-beta2</b> second preview release for Node.js and browsers.</p></a></td>
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