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<h1>Highlights</h1>
<p>This page lists some of the most important new features introduced in Saxon 9.2.</p>
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<p>Saxon 9.2 requires JDK 1.5</p>
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<p>Saxon 9.2 comes in three editions: Home, Professional, and Enterprise, replacing the previous
split between Basic and Schema-Aware.</p>
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<p>Home Edition (HE) includes most of what was in Saxon-B, with the exception of Saxon extensions
and extensibility features</p>
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<p>Professional Edition (PE) includes everything that was in Saxon-B, plus some additional features
previously only available in Saxon-SA, such as XQuery 1.1 support and higher-order functions</p>
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<p>Enteprise Edition (EE) is the successor to Saxon-SA, and includes all the capability of Saxon-SA
plus new features introduced in Saxon 9.2.</p>
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<p>Configuration information can now be specified in an optional configuration file</p>
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<p>A new mechanism for creating "integrated extension functions" is defined, removing the reliance
on Java reflection and the dependency on ad-hoc rules for conversions between XPath types and Java classes</p>
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<p>Separate compilation of query modules in now possible (Saxon-EE only)</p>
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<p>Support for XQuery Updates is aligned with the Candidate Recommendation</p>
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<p>Selected features from the draft XQuery 1.1 Recommendation are implemented, notably Higher Order Functions</p>
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<p>A number of Saxon extension functions have been reimplemented to use higher order functions, leading
to a slight change in interface</p>
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<p>More features from XML Schema 1.1 have been implemented, including "open content", and the ability
for an element to belong to multiple substitution groups.</p>
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<p>More capabilities are available for running transformations in streaming mode, in particular, it
is now possible to traverse a streamed document using recursive template rules provided that the template
rules are sufficiently simple.</p>
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