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Saxon 5.2 is available

Subject: Saxon 5.2 is available
From: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 18:47:31 -0000
saxon 5.2
As members of the SAXON mailing list will already know, version 5.2 is
available at the usual location
http://users.iclway.co.uk/mhkay/saxon

I thought I'd let it have a little exposure before announcing more widely.

For details of changes see
http://users.iclway.co.uk/mhkay/saxon/changes.html

Main features:
- 27 bugs cleared
- support for <?xml-stylesheet?> processing instruction, and embedded
stylesheets
- ability to take the stylesheet or source document from a DOM
- several interesting new extension functions
  * distinct() returns nodes with unique string-values
  * evaluate() evaluates an XPath expression supplied as a string
  * range() returns a nodeset representing a range of numbers
  * tokenize() returns a nodeset representing the tokens in a supplied
string
- many detailed changes to output formatting, especially for HTML
- ability to select the parser from the command line

There should be fewer compatibility problems with this release. The main one
is a change to the way extension functions are called, to bring Saxon into
line with xt and Xalan. Instance-level Java methods are now called by
supplying the instance as the first argument, and new() can be used to
create an instance. So for example:

Date:toString() must be replaced by Date:toString(Date:new())

Java objects can now be held in XSLT variables.

One new bug has been found so far, namely the extension <saxon:preview> does
not work (and therefore the sample stylesheet play.xsl does not work). If
you're using <saxon:preview>, stick with 5.1.

Mike Kay


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