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<h1>Example applications for .NET</h1>
<p>The <code>/samples/cs</code> directory contains somer sample applications written in C#,
designed to illustrate use of the Saxon API available in the <code>Saxon.Api</code> namespace.
In particular there are three programs <code>ExamplesHE.cs</code>, <code>ExamplesPE.cs</code>,
and <code>ExamplesEE.cs</code> relevant to Saxon-HE, Saxon-PE, and Saxon-EE respectively; each shows
various ways of invoking XSLT, XQuery, XPath, and schema validation where appropriate. The idea
is that you should be able to cut and paste a suitable fragment of code into your own application
as a quick way of getting started.</p>
<p>The main value of these samples is in reading the source code rather than in actually running them;
however, running them is also a good check that your installation has been set up correctly.
a quick look at the comments in the source should enable you to see how they are executed.
Note that they all require the environment variable <code>SAXON_HOME</code> to be set to the directory
where Saxon is installed: this is used to find the sample data files.</p>
<p>The example applications can be run from the command line. They take the following arguments:</p>
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<p><b>-dir:<i>samples</i></b> - provides the name of the samples directory from the saxon-resources
download. The default uses the SAXON_HOME environment variable - but it's normally best to supply this
parameter explicitly.</p>
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<p><b>-ask:<i>yes|no</i></b> - with ask:yes (the default), the application prompts after each test to ask if you
want to continue.</p>
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<p><b>-test:<i>testname</i></b> - supplies the name of the test you want to run, or "all" (the default) to indicate
all tests.</p>
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<p>Also in the same directory is an application <code>TestRunnerProgram.cs</code> which is a test harness
for running the XSLT, XQuery, and XSD test suites published by W3C (in the case of XSLT, the test data is available
to W3C members only).</p>
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