This:
basex -o output.xml "xslt:transform('small.xml', 'transform.xsl')"
worked perfectly. Apologies -- I should have consider the quoting issue.
Thank you very much,
Rory
On 23/07/25, Christian Grün ([email protected]) wrote:
>
> Illegal character in opaque part at index 15: xslt:transform("small.xml",
> "transform.xsl")
>
> Depending on your operating system, you might need to swap the parentheses:
>
> basex -o output.xml "xslt:transform('small.xml', 'transform.xsl')"
>
> Hope this helps,
> Christian
>
>
> On 22/07/25, Christian Grün ([email protected]) wrote:
> > Hi Roy, thanks all,
> >
> > As indicated by Martin, …
> >
> > file:write($output, xslt:transform($input, $stylesheet))
> >
> > …works with BaseX 10.5. For the latest proposed syntax, you will need to
> > switch to a newer version.
> >
> > You can also use supply the XQuery code on command line and specify an
> > output target:
> >
> > basex -o output.xml 'xslt:transform("small.xml", "transform.xsl")'
> >
> > …or, as suggested:
> >
> > __ wrapper.xqy:
> > declare variable $input as xs:string external;
> > declare variable $stylesheet as xs:string external;
> > xslt:transform($input, $stylesheet)
> >
> > __ command-line:
> > basex -o output.xml -b input=small.xml -b stylesheet=transform.xsl
> > wrapper.xqy
> >
> > Best,
> > Christian
> >
> > ________________________________
> > Von: Martin Honnen via BaseX-Talk <[email protected]>
> > Gesendet: Dienstag, 22. Juli 2025 18:23
> > An: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> > Betreff: [basex-talk] Re: command line xsl transformation
> >
> >
> > On 22/07/2025 18:03, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> > > Hi Yitzhak
> > >
> > > That is an incredibly helpful Xquery example.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately I'm unable to get it to run on my Linux machine.
> > >
> > > While this (Saxon-HE) works ok:
> > >
> > > saxon -s:small.xml -xsl:transform.xsl -o:result.html
> > >
> > > basex returns a stacktrace (shown at the bottom of my email) when I run
> > > the basex query below, modelled on yours but using quoting which I think
> > > is correct for linux.
> > >
> > > basex -b '$input=small.xml' -b '$stylesheet=transform.xsl'
> > > wrapper.xqy
> > >
> > > This fails with a
> > >
> > > java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: Index -1 out of bounds for
> > > length 8
> > >
> > > error, although I don't believe I'm using any range/iterator expressions.
> >
> >
> > First of all, to use XSLT 2 or 3 with BaseX, you need to add Saxon HE
> > Java library (current version is 12.8, but I think 11.7 or even 10.9
> > would work, too) to the BaseX lib folder, plus its dependencies like XML
> > resolver.
> >
> > Then note that the current version of BaseX is 12, so with 10.5 you are
> > using an outdated version (might be because you went with a Linux package).
> >
> >
> > I am not quite sure what causes the error you get but I think Yitzhak
> > took advantage of recent updates to XQuery, like the "->" operator, I am
> > not sure that was supported in 10.5. Wait for Christian to tell.
> >
> > Perhaps instead of
> >
> > xslt:transform($input, $stylesheet) -> file:write($output, .)
> >
> > you could try
> >
> > file:write($output, xslt:transform($input, $stylesheet))
> >
> >
> >
