[ANN] Saxon 9.0

Saxon 9.0 has been released.

>From the point of view of XML Schema support, there are a number of
interesting features:

(a) a first implementation of the new <xs:assert> mechanism in XML Schema
1.1

(b) the ability to export and import the compiled schema in an XML
representation. This is useful both for performance - it's faster to load a
schema from this representation that from raw XSDL schema documents; and
also because the resulting export file is more amenable to application
processing than handling raw XSDL. (However, more work needs to be done on
documenting the format!)

(c) a revamp of the com.saxonica.Validate command line interface allowing
validation of multiple instance documents against a schema built from
multiple schema documents.

A free evaluation license is available, and a full license for schema
processing only can be purchased for GBP 30 (about USD 63 as of a few
minutes ago...)

Details at http://www.saxonica.com/

Michael Kay
Saxonica