<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <?xml-stylesheet href="../../make-menu.xsl" type="text/xsl"?><html> <head> <this-is section="changes" page="s90" subpage="highlights90"/> <!-- Generated at 2011-12-09T20:47:22.916Z--><title>Saxonica: XSLT and XQuery Processing: Highlights</title> <meta name="coverage" content="Worldwide"/> <meta name="copyright" content="Copyright Saxonica Ltd"/> <meta name="title" content="Saxonica: XSLT and XQuery Processing: Highlights"/> <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../saxondocs.css" type="text/css"/> </head> <body class="main"> <h1>Highlights</h1> <p>This page lists some of the most important new features introduced in Saxon 9.0</p> <ol> <li content="para"> <p>There is a <a class="bodylink" href="../../changes/s90/s9api90.xml">new Java API</a>, called <b>s9api</b>. Existing APIs remain supported.</p> </li> <li content="para"> <p>The <b>command line</b> interfaces have received a revamp, while retaining backwards compatibility for most options.</p> </li> <li content="para"> <p>The schema processor now supports <b>assertions</b>, as defined in XML Schema 1.1.</p> </li> <li content="para"> <p>A new extension function allows <b>multiple document output</b> in XQuery.</p> </li> <li content="para"> <p>It is now possible to <b>save a compiled schema</b> (the schema component model) as XML.</p> </li> <li content="para"> <p>There is a new model for <b>pull-based evaluation</b> of queries., improving the ability to integrate into a pull-based pipeline architecture.</p> </li> <li content="para"> <p>The latest draft of the <b>XQJ</b> specification (XQuery API for Java) is implemented</p> </li> <li content="para"> <p>Number and date formatting has been added for a number of <b>additional European languages</b> including Belgian French, Flemish, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, and Italian</p> </li> <li content="para"> <p>A number of new <b>optimizations</b> have been introduced. These include function and variable inlining, wider use of automatic indexing, wider use of tail call optimization, hashing for large xsl:choose expressions, and a speed-up of the DOM interface.</p> </li> <li content="para"> <p> <b>Document projection</b> analyzes a query and discards the parts of the source tree that are not needed to answer the query, giving a significant saving in tree-building time and memory.</p> </li> <li content="para"> <p>Optimized <b>expression trees</b> can now be output ("explained") in an XML format, making it amenable to processing or graphical rendition.</p> </li> </ol> <p>Please note that queries compiled into Java code are not backwards-compatible at this release; they must be recompiled.</p> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td> <p align="right"><a class="nav" href="s9api90.xml">Next</a></p> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>