SAXON 5.3.1 is available

SAXON version 5.3.1 is available at http://users.iclway.co.uk/mhkay/saxon/

Version 5.3 was announced to the Saxon list a couple of weeks ago, version
5.3.1 fixes some errors that were found.

This is primarily a performance release. Version 5.3 is typically twice the
speed of version 5.2, and is a lot more economical in its use of memory. In
most of my tests, Saxon performance is now comparable with xt, and faster
than Xalan. Actual performance will vary, of course, from one stylesheet to
another.

Other changes:
- a move towards use of SAX2 interfaces rather than SAX1
- a couple of new extensions:
  - calling a template whose name is determined at run-time
  - disable-output-escaping in attribute values (e.g. for "&" in HTML URLs)

The full details are in the
http://users.iclway.co.uk/mhkay/saxon/changes.html file.

Mike Kay


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