diff --git a/pljava-examples/src/main/java/org/postgresql/pljava/example/annotation/ConditionalDDR.java b/pljava-examples/src/main/java/org/postgresql/pljava/example/annotation/ConditionalDDR.java
index 26fabe830..d982be0be 100644
--- a/pljava-examples/src/main/java/org/postgresql/pljava/example/annotation/ConditionalDDR.java
+++ b/pljava-examples/src/main/java/org/postgresql/pljava/example/annotation/ConditionalDDR.java
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
  */
 package org.postgresql.pljava.example.annotation;
 
+import org.postgresql.pljava.annotation.Function;
 import org.postgresql.pljava.annotation.SQLAction;
 
 /**
@@ -106,4 +107,28 @@
 	" current_setting('pljava.implementors'), true) " +
 	"END"
 )
-public class ConditionalDDR { }
+public class ConditionalDDR
+{
+	private ConditionalDDR() { } // do not instantiate
+
+	/**
+	 * Tests class names in the supplied order, returning false as soon as any
+	 * cannot be found by the class loader(s) available to the examples jar, or
+	 * true if all can be found.
+	 */
+	@Function(variadic = true, provides = "presentOnClassPath")
+	public static boolean presentOnClassPath(String[] className)
+	{
+		try
+		{
+			ClassLoader myLoader = ConditionalDDR.class.getClassLoader();
+			for ( String cn : className )
+				Class.forName(cn, false, myLoader);
+			return true;
+		}
+		catch ( ClassNotFoundException e )
+		{
+			return false;
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/pljava-examples/src/main/java/org/postgresql/pljava/example/saxon/S9.java b/pljava-examples/src/main/java/org/postgresql/pljava/example/saxon/S9.java
index fc3fb5210..9eb5fdb07 100644
--- a/pljava-examples/src/main/java/org/postgresql/pljava/example/saxon/S9.java
+++ b/pljava-examples/src/main/java/org/postgresql/pljava/example/saxon/S9.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2018-2020 Tada AB and other contributors, as listed below.
+ * Copyright (c) 2018-2025 Tada AB and other contributors, as listed below.
  *
  * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
  * are made available under the terms of the The BSD 3-Clause License
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@
 import org.postgresql.pljava.ResultSetProvider;
 
 import org.postgresql.pljava.annotation.Function;
+import org.postgresql.pljava.annotation.SQLAction;
 import org.postgresql.pljava.annotation.SQLType;
 import static org.postgresql.pljava.annotation.Function.OnNullInput.CALLED;
 
@@ -288,6 +289,23 @@
  * XQuery regular-expression methods provided here.
  * @author Chapman Flack
  */
+@SQLAction(
+	implementor = "postgresql_xml",  // skip it all if no xml support
+	requires = "presentOnClassPath",
+	provides = "saxon9api",
+	install =
+	"SELECT CASE WHEN" +
+	" presentOnClassPath('net.sf.saxon.s9api.QName')" +
+	"THEN" +
+	" CAST(" +
+	"  set_config('pljava.implementors', 'saxon9api,' || " +
+	"   current_setting('pljava.implementors'), true)" +
+	"  AS void" +
+	" )" +
+	"ELSE" +
+	" logMessage('INFO', 'Saxon examples skipped: s9api classes missing')" +
+	"END"
+)
 public class S9 implements ResultSetProvider.Large
 {
 	private S9(
@@ -399,7 +417,7 @@ static class DocumentWrapUnwrap
 	 * @param sve SQL string value to use in a text node
 	 * @return XML content, the text node wrapped in a document node
 	 */
-	@Function(schema="javatest")
+	@Function(implementor="saxon9api", schema="javatest")
 	public static SQLXML xmltext(String sve) throws SQLException
 	{
 		SQLXML rx = s_dbc.createSQLXML();
@@ -457,6 +475,7 @@ public static SQLXML xmltext(String sve) throws SQLException
 	 * type to be cast to.
 	 */
 	@Function(
+		implementor="saxon9api",
 		schema="javatest",
 		type="pg_catalog.record",
 		onNullInput=CALLED,
@@ -615,6 +634,7 @@ public static boolean xmlcast(
 	 * namespace.
 	 */
 	@Function(
+		implementor="saxon9api",
 		schema="javatest",
 		onNullInput=CALLED,
 		settings="IntervalStyle TO iso_8601"
@@ -683,6 +703,7 @@ public static SQLXML xq_ret_content(
 	 * SQL value is null.
 	 */
 	@Function(
+		implementor="saxon9api",
 		schema="javatest",
 		onNullInput=CALLED,
 		settings="IntervalStyle TO iso_8601"
@@ -822,6 +843,7 @@ private static SQLXML returnContent(
 	 * for base64 or (the default, false) hexadecimal.
 	 */
 	@Function(
+		implementor="saxon9api",
 		schema="javatest",
 		onNullInput=CALLED,
 		settings="IntervalStyle TO iso_8601"
@@ -2983,7 +3005,7 @@ public void onGroupEnd(int groupNumber)
 	 * SQLFeatureNotSupportedException (0A000) if (in the current
 	 * implementation) w3cNewlines is false or omitted.
 	 */
-	@Function(schema="javatest")
+	@Function(implementor="saxon9api", schema="javatest")
 	public static boolean like_regex(
 		String value,                          //strict
 		String pattern,                        //strict
@@ -3036,7 +3058,7 @@ public static boolean like_regex(
 	 * SQLFeatureNotSupportedException (0A000) if (in the current
 	 * implementation) usingOctets is true, or w3cNewlines is false or omitted.
 	 */
-	@Function(schema="javatest")
+	@Function(implementor="saxon9api", schema="javatest")
 	public static int occurrences_regex(
 		String pattern,                        //strict
 		@SQLType(name="\"in\"") String in,     //strict
@@ -3115,7 +3137,7 @@ public static int occurrences_regex(
 	 * SQLFeatureNotSupportedException (0A000) if (in the current
 	 * implementation) usingOctets is true, or w3cNewlines is false or omitted.
 	 */
-	@Function(schema="javatest")
+	@Function(implementor="saxon9api", schema="javatest")
 	public static int position_regex(
 		String pattern,                                         //strict
 		@SQLType(name="\"in\"") String in,                      //strict
@@ -3197,7 +3219,7 @@ public static int position_regex(
 	 * SQLFeatureNotSupportedException (0A000) if (in the current
 	 * implementation) usingOctets is true, or w3cNewlines is false or omitted.
 	 */
-	@Function(schema="javatest")
+	@Function(implementor="saxon9api", schema="javatest")
 	public static String substring_regex(
 		String pattern,                                          //strict
 		@SQLType(name="\"in\"") String in,                       //strict
@@ -3298,7 +3320,7 @@ public static String substring_regex(
 	 * SQLFeatureNotSupportedException (0A000) if (in the current
 	 * implementation) usingOctets is true, or w3cNewlines is false or omitted.
 	 */
-	@Function(schema="javatest")
+	@Function(implementor="saxon9api", schema="javatest")
 	public static String translate_regex(
 		String pattern, 										 //strict
 		@SQLType(name="\"in\"") String in,						 //strict