SaxonHE12NetXQuery 12.5.9.6-pre1

This is a prerelease version of SaxonHE12NetXQuery.
There is a newer prerelease version of this package available.
See the version list below for details.
dotnet tool install --global SaxonHE12NetXQuery --version 12.5.9.6-pre1                
This package contains a .NET tool you can call from the shell/command line.
dotnet new tool-manifest # if you are setting up this repo
dotnet tool install --local SaxonHE12NetXQuery --version 12.5.9.6-pre1                
This package contains a .NET tool you can call from the shell/command line.
#tool dotnet:?package=SaxonHE12NetXQuery&version=12.5.9.6-pre1&prerelease                
nuke :add-package SaxonHE12NetXQuery --version 12.5.9.6-pre1                

Thin .NET 8/9 console app/dotnet tool around IKVM cross-compiled .NET version of Saxon-HE 12.5 Java

This tool is a .NET 8/9 console app/a dotnet tool providing a thin .NET 8/9 wrapper around an IKVM cross-compiled version of Saxon HE 12.5 Java to run XQuery 3.1.

This is one of the sample projects outlining my successful attempt to apply https://github.com/ikvm-revived/ikvm and https://github.com/ikvm-revived/ikvm-maven to use the open-source Saxon HE 12 Java XSLT 3.0, XQuery 3.1 and XPath 3.1 library in .NET 8/9 code.

Please understand that this is my own experiment, it uses the official Saxon HE 12.5 release from Maven, but the integration with IKVM and IKVM Maven is an experimental work of my own, not in any way an officially tested and supported product by Saxonica, the company that has produced Saxon.

So feel free to use to try and use it under the Mozilla Public License 2.0.

The releases can be found later on NuGet.

Understand that this is work in progress and kind of experimental, I don't have access to a complete test suite of unit tests to rigorously test this, I nevertheless feel it can be useful for folks to at least know about this option to run XQuery 3.1 with .NET 8 or later, without depending on the so far commercial only SaxonCS from Saxonica.

Known issues: I have created the project with VS 2022 Community Edition on Windows, apps built that way could be deployed and run successfully under Linux or Mac; also, the latest https://github.com/ikvm-revived/ikvm-maven does seem to work on a Mac, so in experiments of your own you should be able to develop and build on Windows and MacOS.

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.NET net8.0 is compatible.  net8.0-android was computed.  net8.0-browser was computed.  net8.0-ios was computed.  net8.0-maccatalyst was computed.  net8.0-macos was computed.  net8.0-tvos was computed.  net8.0-windows was computed.  net9.0 is compatible. 
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Version Downloads Last updated
12.5.9.6-pre2 580 10/11/2024
12.5.9.6-pre1 1,432 9/14/2024
12.5.9.5 2,184 9/14/2024
12.5.9.4 1,485 9/13/2024
12.5.9.3 2,951 8/21/2024
12.5.9.2-pre1 628 8/14/2024
12.5.9.1 1,344 7/16/2024
12.5.0 1,657 7/2/2024
12.4.8.8 2,117 4/18/2024
12.4.8.8-pre.1 143 3/28/2024
12.4.7.5 1,137 3/27/2024
12.4.0 999 11/30/2023
12.3.8.8 1,723 11/10/2023
12.3.0 2,108 7/5/2023
12.2.0 1,674 5/2/2023
12.1.0 1,150 3/21/2023

This is the first preview release based on Saxon HE 12.5 and the latest releases of IKVM.Maven.Sdk 1.8.2/IKVM 8.10.2 (using for the first time in years an up to date Java 8/1.8 JDK 422) for .NET 8 and .NET 9 RC 1