[xsl] [ANN] Saxon 9.1 is available

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Saxon 9.1 is now available. Download links are at http://saxon.sf.net/.

Full details of the changes (119 items) are at 

http://www.saxonica.com/documentation/changes/intro.html

For the XSLT user the most interesting developments are probably in the area
of streaming, allowing large documents to be processed without constructing
a complete tree in memory: see

http://www.saxonica.com/documentation/sourcedocs/serial.html

The saxon:stream() extension function is essentially a repackaging of the
existing <xsl:copy-of saxon:read-once> instruction, but it becomes a lot
more versatile with the new syntax; in addition, a wider class of XPath
expressions can now be streamed. Apart from this syntactic change, there are
two other significant enhancements:

* the saxon:iterate extension instruction allows "stateful" streamed
processing where the processing of an element in the document can depend on
data that was seen earlier in the stream. This was not previously possible.

* operations that only need to see data near the start of the document will
cause the XML parsing to terminate as soon as the required data is
available. So you can get the title of a document without parsing the whole
document.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/