Subject: Re: [xsl] [ANN] Saxon 10.0 (today's other news..) From: "Mark Giffin m1879@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 20:17:09 -0000 |
Thanks Mike for all your good work over the years. When I'm in the middle of complex problems, I find that I can depend on Saxon to do the right things. I know that's not easy to accomplish, and I appreciate it greatly. Based on this I'd like to request a coronavirus extension... Mark Giffin On 3/16/2020 12:22 PM, Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Saxon 10.0 is released today for the Java platform: > http://www.saxonica.com/download/java.xml > > 10.0 feels like a special number, and marks something of a milestone, > although to be honest it's only called 10.0 because it happens to be > the 31st major release since 7.0 came out back in 2002. Think of it as > the culmination of 18 years' work, think of it as the dawn of a new > era, or just think of it as Saxonica carrying on doing what we're good at. > > As always there's a minutely detailed list of changes in the > documentation on the web site, but to save you time, here are the "top > ten" highlights that we think > will be most popular: > > * Higher order functions and xsl:evaluate are now available in Saxon-HE. > > * An interactive command-line utility named Gizmo is available for > ad-hoc querying and updating of documents. > > * A new API is provided for easy and efficient tree construction, > based on modern API design ideas using fluent and immutable objects. > These complement the stream-based API introduced in 9.9 for tree > navigation. > > * XSLT and XPath provide an optional switch to allow unprefixed names > to ignore namespaces, so the path /a/b/c matches elements with > local names "a", "b", and "c" regardless of namespace. Ideal for > ad-hoc queries where namespaces just get in the way, as well as > queries on > single-namespace documents. > > * HTML serialization now generates HTML5 by default (support for > html-version="4" is retained if explicitly requested). > > * Saxon now integrates with the new date-and-time handling features in > Java 8, including a new extension function saxon:parse-dateTime() > that builds on Java date parsing capabilities. > > * Many new extension functions are available, most of them taking > advantage of the power of higher-order functions. For example, > saxon:replace-with("Chapter 13", "[0-9]+", > function($x){number($x)+1}) returns "Chapter 14". > > * Saxon 10.0 includes experimental implementations of a number of > powerful new XSLT and XPath features, which Saxonica > has put forward for inclusion in a new version 4.0 of the standards. > These include tuple types, named item types, streamlined syntax > for inline functions and conditional instructions, XSLT instructions > to handle arrays, and enhancements to XSLT patterns to make > JSON transformation much easier. These features are only available if > explicitly enabled. > > * A number of extensions to XML Schema 1.1 are provided: list data > types can be constrained to be distinct and/or ordered, and can > use a separator other than whitespace; elements in a sequence can also > be constrained to appear in ascending or descending order. > > * As always, there has been significant internal re-engineering to > keep the code performant and maintainable. A significant change is > in the way namespaces are represented both in the tree model (the > NodeInfo interface) and in the push pipeline (the Receiver interface): > both now deliver namespace maps representing complete sets of > namespace bindings, rather than individual namespace declarations > and undeclarations. The main benefit is that copying of trees with > many namespaces is significantly faster. > > Saxon 10.0 requires Java 8 or higher. A .NET version will follow > later. Saxon 10.0 can export compiled stylesheets in the form of SEF files > suitable for reading either by Saxon 10.0, or by Saxon-JS 2 (which > will be released in the next few weeks); SEF files cannot be used with > earlier releases. > > In future we intend to use two-part version numbers rather than > four-part: the next major release will be 11.0, the next maintenance > release 10.1. > > The number of tests we run increases every time we release; it's now > close to a million. But we know from experience that some of you will > still find bugs. > We're therefore recommending production users to stick with 9.9 (which > has become very stable and reliable) for the time being, while testing > your applications > on 10.0 and reporting any issues you encounter. > > Michael Kay > Saxonica > XSL-List info and archive <http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list> > EasyUnsubscribe <http://lists.mulberrytech.com/unsub/xsl-list/805141> > (by email <>)
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