Saxon » SaxonJS

Hello,

Not being familiar with Saxon-JS project structure, I don't know if this is a useful suggestion or not, but typically a project would be refactored to internally use ES modules; then a tool like Rollup could be used to create the distributable artifacts (Rollup, for instance, has a Google Closure plugin - https://github.com/ampproject/rollup-plugin-closure-compiler). Rollup can produce a single ESM with obsfucated code, in addition to something like the current IIFE bundle.

If internally Saxon-JS is difficult to convert to ES modules, Rollup also has plugins to use alternate modules types as input. For instance, using AMD modules - https://www.npmjs.com/package/rollup-plugin-amd

I have some familiarity with doing this, and could help clarify your options, if there is any interest. I am exploring a use case that would benefit from ESM usage, also.

One option would be to use Skypack:

import saxonJS from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/saxon-js';

Thank you for the suggestion. I'll take a look.