XSLT and XPATH: A Guide to XML Transformations

13.2. Saxon

Michael Kay has contributed what might be considered one of the most robust and versatile XSLT processors with his Saxon product. It has one of the largest sets of built-in extension top-level elements, instruction elements, and functions. It also runs on Java and is regularly updated at the source Web site, http://users.iclway.co.uk/mhkay/saxon.

Saxon includes a servlet that allows it to be invoked directly from a URL entered into a browser. You might think of Saxon as the “programmer's XSLT processor,” due to its extended documentation for adding extensions, event handlers, and so forth (see the api-guide.html file in the Saxon user documentation).

The Saxon XSLT processor is available in two forms, a “complete” Saxon API for Java, ...