<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <?xml-stylesheet href="../make-menu.xsl" type="text/xsl"?><html> <head> <this-is section="about" page="packages" subpage=""/> <!-- Generated at 2011-12-09T20:47:22.916Z--><title>Saxonica: XSLT and XQuery Processing: Choosing a software package</title> <meta name="coverage" content="Worldwide"/> <meta name="copyright" content="Copyright Saxonica Ltd"/> <meta name="title" content="Saxonica: XSLT and XQuery Processing: Choosing a software package"/> <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../saxondocs.css" type="text/css"/> </head> <body class="main"> <h1>Choosing a software package</h1> <p>Saxon is distributed in three packages: Saxon-HE, Saxon-PE, and Saxon-EE, each of which is available for both the Java and .NET platforms. Saxon-HE is available under an open-source license (specifically, the Mozilla Public License), and all its features are available to all users. Saxon-PE and Saxon-EE are commercial products and require activation by a license key.</p> <p>There are also restricted licenses that work with Saxon-EE but restrict its capability:</p> <ul> <li content="para"> <p>The EET license provides schema validation and schema-aware XSLT transformation only (no XQuery)</p> </li> <li content="para"> <p>The EEQ license provides schema validation and schema-aware XQuery only (no XSLT)</p> </li> <li content="para"> <p>The EEV license provides schema validation only (no XQuery or XSLT)</p> </li> </ul> <p>For a full table showing the features available in each edition and licensing variant, see the <a href="http://www.saxonica.com/feature-matrix.xml" class="bodylink">feature matrix</a></p> <p>For commercial information including prices, terms and conditions, maintenance and upgrade offerings, site licensing, and redistribution licensing, see the <a href="http://www.saxonica.com/shop/index.html" class="bodylink">online store</a>.</p> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td> <p align="right"><a class="nav" href="installationjava.xml">Next</a></p> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>