Package net.sf.saxon.sapling

This package defines a public API for constructing trees; it represents trees-under-construction using a lightweight immutable data structure called a sapling; once construction of a sapling tree is complete, it can be copied to form a fully-functional XDM tree in the form of an XdmNode or NodeInfo object.

See: Description

Class Summary

Class	Description
SaplingComment	A comment node in a sapling tree
SaplingDocument	A document node in a sapling tree.
SaplingElement	An element node on a sapling tree.
SaplingNode	This class represents a sapling node.
SaplingProcessingInstruction	A processing-instruction node in a sapling tree
Saplings	This is a non-instantiable class holding a number of convenience methods for creating sapling nodes of different kinds.
SaplingText

Package net.sf.saxon.sapling Description

This package defines a public API for constructing trees; it represents trees-under-construction using a lightweight immutable data structure called a sapling; once construction of a sapling tree is complete, it can be copied to form a fully-functional XDM tree in the form of an XdmNode or NodeInfo object.

An overview of the API can be found in the Javadoc for class SaplingNode.