Configuration from the command line
The main command-line interfaces to Saxon are net.sf.saxon.Transform for running a
transformation, net.sf.saxon.Query for running XQuery, and com.saxonica.Validate for validating a document against a schema. These commands allow many
configuration options to be specified by command line options: for example if XML Schema 1.1 support is wanted, all three
commands allow this to be requested using the option -xsdversion:1.1
. Many of these options correspond directly to the configuration
properties available on the Configuration object.
For full details, including lists of the available command line options for each of these interfaces, see the following:
- Running XSLT from the Command Line
- Running XQuery from the Command Line
- Running Validation from the Command Line
For more specialized options, there is also a fallback mechanism. Each configuration property has a URI, which is always of the form
http://saxon.sf.net/feature/SOME_NAME
. Provided the property allows a string value (as most do), the property can be set from the
command line using the syntax --SOME_NAME:value
. For example the property identified by FeatureKeys.LICENSE_FILE_LOCATION has the URI
http://saxon.sf.net/feature/licenseFileLocation
, and it can therefore be set on the command line using an option such as
--licenseFileLocation:c:/saxon/license.lic
.