I have produced a new release which is available for
download from
http://home.iclweb.com/icl2/mhkay/saxon.html
Changes in this version:
* Substantial performance improvements (factor of 2 to 3)
* Greatly improved error/exception handling
* Minor bug fixes and documentation improvements
* A new (experimental) integration with the DOM, as
implemented by FREE-DOM.
The idea of the FREE-DOM integration is that you can now
write the same event-driven SAXON application to process a
document serially, from raw parser events, or to do a
traversal of the DOM tree. The only difference is that in
the latter case, additional facilities are available, for
example the ability to update the DOM and generate a new XML
document from it.
(Incidentally, this works by having a SAX driver that
traverses the DOM instead of parsing an input file. This is
probably a useful animal in its own right, outside the SAXON
context).
I have produced a number of ad-hoc XML applications using
SAXON and I feel the functionality has now stabilised to do
most of the things I find useful, including things like
sorting and automatic numbering of elements. Feedback from
others will be very welcome, however.
I have also re-released GedML, a SAXON application that
processes genealogical data encoded in XML. It is on
http://home.iclweb.com/icl2/mhkay/gedml.html
Mike Kay, ICL
M.H.Kay@eng.icl.co.uk (work)
mhkay@iclweb.com (home)
PS: Congratulations to Don Park, who put just the hooks I
needed into FREE-DOM to enable the integration.