<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <?xml-stylesheet href="../../make-menu.xsl" type="text/xsl"?><html> <head> <this-is section="changes" page="intro" subpage="extensions-94"/> <!-- Generated at 2011-12-09T20:47:22.916Z--><title>Saxonica: XSLT and XQuery Processing: Changes to Saxon extensions and extensibility mechanisms</title> <meta name="coverage" content="Worldwide"/> <meta name="copyright" content="Copyright Saxonica Ltd"/> <meta name="title" content="Saxonica: XSLT and XQuery Processing: Changes to Saxon extensions and extensibility mechanisms"/> <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../saxondocs.css" type="text/css"/> </head> <body class="main"> <h1>Changes to Saxon extensions and extensibility mechanisms</h1> <p>An additional flag is provided for <code>saxon:deep-equal()</code>: the <code>I</code> flag tests whether the <code>is-ID</code> and <code>is-IDREF</code> properties of two nodes match.</p> <p>To allow XSLT extension instructions to be called from generated bytecode, the interface has been changed: evaluation must now be done using the standard <code>call</code> method, which is aligned with the interface for integrated extension functions. For examples, see the source code of the SQL extension classes.</p> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td> <p align="right"><a class="nav" href="api-94.xml">Next</a></p> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>