[xquery-talk] Use Saxon Proccessor to Process XQuery

[James A. Robinson]

>   I wonder if there are any of you on this list use Saxon (Java) to 
> process XQuery files. I currently process my XQuery files with a XML 

Sure it's possible to do that.

> declare variable $text external;

I'm having a hard time understanding how this parameter relates to the
firstName parameter you pass below in your example.

> The query works, without a terminal prompt, that is. What I want to do 
> is to call it with a command prompt so I can change my variable from 
> case to case. According to Dr. Kay's article in Learn XQuery in 10 
> minutes, the prompt is as follows:
> 
>   java net.sf.saxon.Query sample.xquery firstName=Lisa

On a Linux/Unix/MacOS X machine, assuming java is in your
execution path, you should be able to run:

  java -classpath /path/to/your/saxon8.jar net.sf.saxon.Query sample.xquery firstName=Lisa

though I would have expected a parameter 'text=Lisa', given your
declaration of a $text external variable.

On a Windows machine I'd imagine the classpath argument would be
something more like C:\some\path\to\your\saxon8.jar


Jim

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