On 23/07/2025 22:49, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
On 23/07/25, Martin Honnen via BaseX-Talk (basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de)
wrote:
On 23/07/2025 18:42, Graydon Saunders wrote:
The zip package from (currently)
https://files.basex.org/releases/12.0/BaseX120.zip
unpacks and you're basically done.
...
On Wed, Jul 23, 2025, at 12:06, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
I may be working soon on a commercial server supporting XQuery 3.1+
with its own proprietary extensions, and XSLT 2.0.
Would basex 12 be the best match for these protocol versions (except
of the proprietary components, of course)? I'm most interesting in
working in an iterative fashion on the command line, as I'm used to
doing with vim and psql (the postgresql interactive terminal).
If you want XSLT 2.0 with BaseX, you additionally need to add Saxon HE
that the currently supported versions 12 and 11 of Saxon are really XSLT 3.0
processors, not XSLT 2.0.
Thank you for the clarification about XSLT 3.0, Martin and Graydon.
I've installed the latest basex (BaseX 12.1) and put Saxon-HE.jar in the lib
folder.
The example from page 116 of "XSLT, 2nd Edition" by Doug Tidwell which has an XSLT
2.0 example with the use of `separator` for <xsl:value-of>.
Running
saxon -s:cars.xml -xsl:cars.xsl -o:/tmp/o.xml
works fine (where "saxon" means `java -jar /usr/share/java/Saxon-HE.jar $@`).
Whereas:
basex -o /tmp/o.xml "xslt:transform('cars.xml', 'cars.xsl')"
Fails with:
Stopped at <path>/basex/, 1/15:
[FODC0002] "" (Line 1): Content is not allowed in prolog.
I assume I need to do something to fix the install path of the Saxon-HE.jar
file.
At the risk of trying everyone's patience further, further advice would be
helpful.
I am afraid, somewhere along the postings, I messed the location up, I
have looked at my BaseX 12 installation and it has a "lib" folder which
has a "custom" sub folder in which I have the Saxon HE jar
saxon-he-12.8.jar. That "custom" subfolder has another "lib" sub folder
in which I have the libraries Saxon depends on, namely
xmlresolver-5.3.3.jar, xmlresolver-5.3.3-data.jar and jline-2.14.6.jar
(this lib folder with the xml resolver and jline jars is part of the
Saxon HE 12 download you find on Github e.g.
https://github.com/Saxonica/Saxon-HE/releases/download/SaxonHE-12-8/SaxonHE12-8J.zip).
A minimal command line I am able to run (it is Windows Powershell) is e.g.
C:\Users\marti\.jdks\temurin-17.0.15\bin\java.exe -cp
'.\BaseX.jar;.\lib\custom\saxon-he-12.8.jar' org.basex.BaseX
"xslt:transform('sample1.xml', 'sheet1.xsl')"
I hope that gets you up and running.
