## net.sf.saxon.s9api
Class Processor

    java.lang.Object
      net.sf.saxon.s9api.Processor

    public class Processor

extends Object

The `Processor` class serves three purposes: it allows global Saxon configuration options to be set; it acts as a factory for generating XQuery, XPath, and XSLT compilers; and it owns certain shared resources such as the Saxon NamePool and compiled schemas. This is the first object that a Saxon application should create. Once established, a Processor may be used in multiple threads.

It is possible to run more than one Saxon Processor concurrently, but only when running completely independent workloads. Nothing can be shared between Processor instances. Within a query or transformation, all source documents and schemas must be built using the same Processor, which must also be used to compile the query or stylesheet.

Constructor Summary
`Processor(boolean licensedEdition)` Create a Processor
`Processor(Configuration config)` Create a Processor based on an existing Configuration.
`Processor(Source source)` Create a Processor configured according to the settings in a supplied configuration file.

Method Summary
`Object` `getConfigurationProperty(String name)` Get the value of a configuration property
`String` `getSaxonProductVersion()` Get the user-visible Saxon product version, for example "9.0.0.1"
`SchemaManager` `getSchemaManager()` Get the associated SchemaManager.
`Configuration` `getUnderlyingConfiguration()` Get the underlying `Configuration` object that underpins this Processor.
`String` `getXmlVersion()` Get the version of XML used by this Processor.
`boolean` `isSchemaAware()` Test whether this processor is schema-aware
`DocumentBuilder` `newDocumentBuilder()` Create a DocumentBuilder.
`Serializer` `newSerializer()` Create a Serializer
`Serializer` `newSerializer(File file)` Create a Serializer initialized to write to a given File.
`Serializer` `newSerializer(OutputStream stream)` Create a Serializer initialized to write to a given OutputStream.
`Serializer` `newSerializer(Writer writer)` Create a Serializer initialized to write to a given Writer.
`XPathCompiler` `newXPathCompiler()` Create an XPathCompiler.
`XQueryCompiler` `newXQueryCompiler()` Create an XQueryCompiler.
`XsltCompiler` `newXsltCompiler()` Create an XsltCompiler.
`void` `registerExtensionFunction(ExtensionFunctionDefinition function)` Register an extension function that is to be made available within any stylesheet, query, or XPath expression compiled under the control of this processor.
`void` `setConfigurationProperty(String name, Object value)` Set a configuration property
`void` `setXmlVersion(String version)` Set the version of XML used by this Processor.
`void` `writeXdmValue(XdmValue value, Destination destination)` Write an XdmValue to a given destination.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
`clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

Constructor Detail

### Processor

    public Processor(boolean licensedEdition)

  Create a Processor

  Parameters:
    `licensedEdition` - indicates whether the Processor requires features of Saxon that need a license file (that is, features not available in Saxon HE (Home Edition). If true, the method will create a Configuration appropriate to the version of the software that is running: for example, if running Saxon-EE, it will create an EnterpriseConfiguration. The method does not at this stage check that a license is available, and in the absence of a license, it should run successfully provided no features that require licensing are actually used. If the argument is set to false, a plain Home Edition Configuration is created unconditionally.

### Processor

    public Processor(Configuration config)

  Create a Processor based on an existing Configuration. This constructor is useful for transition, when new components of an application are to use s9api interfaces but existing components use lower-level interfaces.

  Parameters:
    `config` - the Configuration to be used by this processor
  Since:
    9.3

### Processor

    public Processor(Source source)
              throws SaxonApiException

  Create a Processor configured according to the settings in a supplied configuration file.

  Parameters:
    `source` - the Source of the configuration file
  Throws:
    `SaxonApiException` - if the configuration file cannot be read, or its contents are invalid
  Since:
    9.2

Method Detail

### newDocumentBuilder

    public DocumentBuilder newDocumentBuilder()

  Create a DocumentBuilder. A DocumentBuilder is used to load source XML documents.

  Returns:
    a newly created DocumentBuilder

### newXPathCompiler

    public XPathCompiler newXPathCompiler()

  Create an XPathCompiler. An XPathCompiler is used to compile XPath expressions.

  Returns:
    a newly created XPathCompiler

### newXsltCompiler

    public XsltCompiler newXsltCompiler()

  Create an XsltCompiler. An XsltCompiler is used to compile XSLT stylesheets.

  Returns:
    a newly created XsltCompiler
  Throws:
    `UnsupportedOperationException` - if this version of the Saxon product does not support XSLT processing

### newXQueryCompiler

    public XQueryCompiler newXQueryCompiler()

  Create an XQueryCompiler. An XQueryCompiler is used to compile XQuery queries.

  Returns:
    a newly created XQueryCompiler
  Throws:
    `UnsupportedOperationException` - if this version of the Saxon product does not support XQuery processing

### newSerializer

    public Serializer newSerializer()

  Create a Serializer

  Returns:
    a new Serializer
  Since:
    9.3

### newSerializer

    public Serializer newSerializer(OutputStream stream)

  Create a Serializer initialized to write to a given OutputStream.

  Closing the output stream after use is the responsibility of the caller.

  Parameters:
    `stream` - The OutputStream to which the Serializer will write
  Returns:
    a new Serializer
  Since:
    9.3

### newSerializer

    public Serializer newSerializer(Writer writer)

  Create a Serializer initialized to write to a given Writer.

  Closing the writer after use is the responsibility of the caller.

  Parameters:
    `writer` - The Writer to which the Serializer will write
  Returns:
    a new Serializer
  Since:
    9.3

### newSerializer

    public Serializer newSerializer(File file)

  Create a Serializer initialized to write to a given File.

  Parameters:
    `file` - The File to which the Serializer will write
  Returns:
    a new Serializer
  Since:
    9.3

### registerExtensionFunction

    public void registerExtensionFunction(ExtensionFunctionDefinition function)

  Register an extension function that is to be made available within any stylesheet, query, or XPath expression compiled under the control of this processor. This method registers an extension function implemented as an instance of `ExtensionFunctionCall`, using an arbitrary name and namespace. This supplements the ability to call arbitrary Java methods using a namespace and local name that are related to the Java class and method name.

  Parameters:
    `function` - the class that implements the extension function. This must be a class that extends `ExtensionFunctionCall`, and it must have a public zero-argument constructor
  Throws:
    `IllegalArgumentException` - if the class cannot be instantiated or does not extend `ExtensionFunctionCall`
  Since:
    9.2

### getSchemaManager

    public SchemaManager getSchemaManager()

  Get the associated SchemaManager. The SchemaManager provides capabilities to load and cache XML schema definitions. There is exactly one SchemaManager in a schema-aware Processor, and none in a Processor that is not schema-aware. The SchemaManager is created automatically by the system.

  Returns:
    the associated SchemaManager, or null if the Processor is not schema-aware.

### isSchemaAware

    public boolean isSchemaAware()

  Test whether this processor is schema-aware

  Returns:
    true if this this processor is licensed for schema processing, false otherwise

### getSaxonProductVersion

    public String getSaxonProductVersion()

  Get the user-visible Saxon product version, for example "9.0.0.1"

  Returns:
    the Saxon product version, as a string

### setXmlVersion

    public void setXmlVersion(String version)

  Set the version of XML used by this Processor. If the value is set to "1.0", then output documents will be serialized as XML 1.0. This option also affects the characters permitted to appear in queries and stylesheets, and the characters that can appear in names (for example, in path expressions).

  Note that source documents specifying xml version="1.0" or "1.1" are accepted regardless of this setting.

  Parameters:
    `version` - must be one of the strings "1.0" or "1.1"
  Throws:
    `IllegalArgumentException` - if any string other than "1.0" or "1.1" is supplied

### getXmlVersion

    public String getXmlVersion()

  Get the version of XML used by this Processor. If the value is "1.0", then input documents must be XML 1.0 documents, and output documents will be serialized as XML 1.0. This option also affects the characters permitted to appear in queries and stylesheets, and the characters that can appear in names (for example, in path expressions).

  Returns:
    one of the strings "1.0" or "1.1"

### setConfigurationProperty

    public void setConfigurationProperty(String name,
                                         Object value)

  Set a configuration property

  Parameters:
    `name` - the name of the option to be set. The names of the options available are listed as constants in class `FeatureKeys`.
    `value` - the value of the option to be set.
  Throws:
    `IllegalArgumentException` - if the property name is not recognized

### getConfigurationProperty

    public Object getConfigurationProperty(String name)

  Get the value of a configuration property

  Parameters:
    `name` - the name of the option required. The names of the properties available are listed as constants in class `FeatureKeys`.
  Returns:
    the value of the property, if one is set; or null if the property is unset and there is no default.
  Throws:
    `IllegalArgumentException` - if the property name is not recognized

### getUnderlyingConfiguration

    public Configuration getUnderlyingConfiguration()

  Get the underlying `Configuration` object that underpins this Processor. This method provides an escape hatch to internal Saxon implementation objects that offer a finer and lower-level degree of control than the s9api classes and methods. Some of these classes and methods may change from release to release.

  Returns:
    the underlying Configuration object

### writeXdmValue

    public void writeXdmValue(XdmValue value,
                              Destination destination)
                       throws SaxonApiException

  Write an XdmValue to a given destination. The sequence represented by the XdmValue is "normalized" as defined in the serialization specification (this is equivalent to constructing a document node in XSLT or XQuery with this sequence as the content expression), and the resulting document is then copied to the destination. If the destination is a serializer this has the effect of serializing the sequence as described in the W3C specifications.

  Parameters:
    `value` - the value to be written
    `destination` - the destination to which the value is to be written
  Throws:
    `SaxonApiException`

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