Saxon is a competitor of Xalan, an XSLT processor According to Norm Walsh, the DocBook king, Saxon seems to do a slightly better job of transforming DocBook XML than Xalan In Out-of-the-Box development, we generally use Saxon for DocBook transformation and Xalan in our Java code
a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons; dominant in England until the Norman conquest
One of a nation or people who formerly dwelt in the northern part of Germany, and who, with other Teutonic tribes, invaded and conquered England in the fifth and sixth centuries
of or relating to or characteristic of the early Saxons or Anglo-Saxons and their descendents (especially the English or Lowland Scots) and their language; "Saxon princes"; "for greater clarity choose a plain Saxon term instead of a latinate one"
Noun (Plural: Saxon) A member of the Germanic people that invaded English with the Angles and held power there for much of the first millennium