Thank you for the further pointers, Wendell. I'm coming from experience with REST servers backed by procedural SQL, so the sort of architecture you mention is not foreign to me in abstract, but I haven't looked at XML processing for quite some time (or, indeed, worked with any java tools).
The context of my enquiries are related to processing Akoma Ntoso judicial documents. I haven't worked with XProc at all so I'll add it to my research list. Thank you very much for the pointers. Regards, Rory On 22/07/25, Wendell Piez (wap...@wendellpiez.com) wrote: > Greetings, > > In past projects I have built XSLT pipelines using XQuery as the 'driver' > language - it works, and it works well in BaseX, while requiring additional > support from Saxon for the XSLT part. It can work with scripts, behind a > web service (RestXQ) etc. > > If that specifically is your interest, it remains a BaseX question how best > to do it. (My project was ten years ago now!) > > If the question is more about how to run XSLT from the command line, the > options mentioned are available - but also, we should not overlook, in this > context, XProc 3. > > An XProc 3.0/3.1 engine (such as XML Calabash or Morgana XProc IIIse) can > execute and orchestrate processing pipelines applying either or both XQuery > and XSLT to XML, and much more. > > Regards, Wendell > > XML Calabash: https://www.xmlcalabash.com/ > Morgana XProc IIIse: https://www.xml-project.com/morganaxproc-iiise.html > > > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 6:58 AM Omar Siam <omar.s...@oeaw.ac.at> wrote: > > > Hi Rory, > > > > BaseX is an _XQuery_ processor. It can call XSL processors usind the xslt > > module. But is _not_ an XSL processor itself. > > > > Would it be an option for you to use an actual XSL processor for the task? > > * XSL 2.0+ Saxon (https://www.saxonica.com/download/download_page.xml). > > Several language bindings are available nowadays. > > * XSL 1.0 xsltproc (https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/xsltproc) > > > > I can assure you this will be easier than getting basex to call an XSL > > processor for you and present you the results. > > > > If you really want to use BaseX for that task you need to write a minimal > > XQuery snippet that calls xslt:transform or xslt:transfrom-text. > > > > Am 22.07.2025 um 12:44 schrieb Rory Campbell-Lange: > > > > Hi -- beginner here. > > > > I've installed basex via apt on Debian. > > > > ii basex 10.5-1 all XML database and XPath/XQuery processor > > > > I've successfully made and interrogated a database and made a few basic > > xquery commands from the command line. > > > > I'm hoping to use basex for xsl transformations from the command line so > > that I can work rapidly on iterating towards the transformation I'm trying > > to achieve. Specifically, I'm aiming to transform an XML document using an > > XSL document to produce an HTML document. I've tried the following, plus > > other variants: > > > > basex -W -i input.xml -o out.html transform.xsl > > > > However the resulting file at out.html is simply the transform.xsl file. > > > > I'd be grateful for advice. > > > > Many thanks, > > Rory > > > > Best regards > > > > -- > > Mag. Ing. Omar Siam > > Austrian Center for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage > > Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften | Austrian Academy of Sciences > > Stellvertretende Behindertenvertrauensperson | Deputy representative for > > disabled persons > > Bäckerstraße 13, 1010 Wien, Österreich | Vienna, Austria > > T: +43 1 51581-7295omar.s...@oeaw.ac.at | www.oeaw.ac.at/acdh > > > > > > -- > ...Wendell Piez... ...wendell -at- nist -dot- gov... > ...wendellpiez.com... ...pellucidliterature.org... ...pausepress.org... > ...github.com/wendellpiez... ...gitlab.coko.foundation/wendell...
