Thank for your great work, it's really valuable.

I only noticed that the compiler is still not shiped with this
version, and as we got trouble with the previous one (with SAXON 4.5
), I wonder if you have some plan on this subject ? May you need some
help to finish it ?

Thank,

Sebastien

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kay Michael [mailto:Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: vendredi 3 décembre 1999 10:52
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: SAXON 5.0 is available
> 
> 
> SAXON 5.0 is available at http://users.iclway.co.uk/mhkay/saxon/
> 
> This version is a complete implementation of XSLT 1.0 and XPath 1.0.

> 
> (If there are any parts of the spec it doesn't implement, 
> then that's an
> oversight and will be treated as a bug.)
> 
> Apart from full conformance, the new things in this release are:
> 
> - a number of new extension functions
>   - intersection(), difference() and has-same-nodes() to 
> compare node-sets
>   - line-number() and system-id() of the current node in the 
> source document
>   - if(condition, then, else) 
> 
> - stylesheet chaining
>   - specify <saxon:output next-in-chain="phase2.xsl"> to send 
> the output of
> this stylesheet
>     to be the input to another stylesheet
> 
> - user-definable numbering and collating sequences
> 
> - internal improvements to node-set handling and sorting, which
should
> result in better performance when handling large node-sets, and
should
> certainly reduce the load on the garbage collector
> 
> Full details of changes are at
> http://users.iclway.co.uk/mhkay/saxon/changes.html
> 
> Mike Kay
> 
> 
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