Hi Rory, It is very easy to run XSLT transformations directly in BaseX.
BaseX has a built-in XSLT module for that. By default it supports XSLT 1.0 standard. If needed you can extend it up to XSLT 4.0 via Saxon. First, you need to prepare a tiny XQuery file for that.\ It accepts two parameters: - $input, to specify input XML file - $stylesheet, to specify XSLT file In my example the result output file gets calculated name with a specific suffix: "_output.xml" But it could be a 3rd parameter too. xquery_xslt.qy ============================== declare variable $input as xs:string external; declare variable $stylesheet as xs:string external; let $output := substring-before($input, ".") || "_output.xml" return xslt:transform($input, $stylesheet) -> file:write($output, .) Second, launch XSLT transformation at the command prompt: basex.bat -b $input="path/to/input.xml" -b $stylesheet="path/to/transform.xslt" "path/to/xquery_xslt.qy" Regards, Yitzhak Khabinsky
