SAXONICA

Saxon Documentation
Full Contents
About Saxon
| Introduction
| Getting Started
| What is Saxon?
| Choosing a software package
| Installation: Java platform
| Installation: .NET platform
| Historical Note
| Technical Support
» | Related Products
Changes in this Release
Notices
Using XSLT 2.0
Using XQuery
Handling Source Documents
XML Schema Processing
XPath API for Java
Saxon on .NET
Extensibility
Saxon Extensions
Sample Saxon Applications
The Saxon SQL Extension
XSLT Elements
XPath 2.0 Expression Syntax
Function Library
Standards Conformance

# Related Products

This section lists some Saxon add-ons and extensions produced by third parties. Saxonica Limited takes no responsibility for the quality of these products.

Open Source tools

Kernow is a graphical front-end for Saxon. This is an open-source product developed by Andrew Welch. It provides an effective alternative to the Saxon command line interface for users who prefer a GUI for running ad-hoc transformations.

On MAC OS/X, Todd Ditchendorf has produced XSLPalette, which is designed to integrate with your own choice of text editor to provide XSLT development and debugging support.

Commercial Editors and Debuggers

A number of commercial XML IDEs provide support for XML, XSLT, and/or XQuery editing and debugging, with the ability to configure Saxon as the chosen XSLT/XQuery processor. These include:

- Stylus Studio: offers XSLT, XQuery, and XML Schema development and debugging, all using Saxon. This is currently the only IDE that offers Saxon-SA built-in.

- oXygen offers XSLT and XML Schema development and debugging for Saxon. Integrates Saxon-B, and works with Saxon-SA which you must purchase separately.

- A budget XML Editor and Debugger for Saxon is EditiX, with prices starting at $22.

- XML Spy from Altova allows you to configure Saxon as your XSLT or XQuery processor, but does not provide Saxon debugging. There is also a third-party plug-in that allows Saxon-SA to be used for schema validation.

XQuery Documentation

xqDoc is a Javadoc-like documentation tool for XQuery. It works with Saxon, and is available either as a free-standing tool from http://xqdoc.org/ or as part of Stylus Studio.