Subject: Re: [xsl] [ANN] Saxon 10.0 (today's other news..) From: "Dimitre Novatchev dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 05:05:03 -0000 |
> * 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. Wow... Eager to try these... Good job! -- Cheers, Dimitre Novatchev On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 12:22 PM Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx < xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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/782854> (by > email <>)
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