XQUERY UPDATE with SAXON9 -sa

[RolfK]

Dear ALL,

I'm absolute new to XQUERY and very much interested in the XQuery
Update Facility.
As SAXON9.1 SA is able to process XQuery Update / Insert / Delete ..
I would like to ask for a very tine example.

Usually I call SAXON from commandline.

1) How is commandline to execute an XQERY script ?
I just tried: >>>saxon -sa file.xml file.xquery
But saxon thinks the file.xquery is an xslt

2) Do I have to EMBED xquery in an xslt script ?
I guess I even do not need the xml file on command line as I can use
the doc(..) function

3) Are there some very tiny examples ?
As you see I'm fighting mostly to get started and not with the XQUERY
syntax itself yet

Thanks a lot

Rolf

 

[Martin Honnen]

I'm absolute new to XQUERY and very much interested in the XQuery
Update Facility.
As SAXON9.1 SA is able to process XQuery Update / Insert / Delete ..
I would like to ask for a very tine example.

Usually I call SAXON from commandline.

1) How is commandline to execute an XQERY script ?
I just tried: >>>saxon -sa file.xml file.xquery
But saxon thinks the file.xquery is an xslt

The documentation here
http://www.saxonica.com/documentation/using-xquery/commandline.html
suggests you use
java net.sf.saxon.Query -s:file.xml -q:file.xquery
where file.xquery is the XQuery file and file.xml the XML source document.

That is for the basic Saxon version I think, so for schema aware
processing you need
java net.sf.saxon.Query -sa -s:file.xml -q:file.xquery

And http://www.saxonica.com/documentation/using-xquery/update.html
suggests that for XQuery update you also need to set the flag -updaten
so you would need
java net.sf.saxon.Query -sa -updaten -s:file.xml -q:file.xquery

I suggest that you ask further Saxon specific questions on the Saxon
help list
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=saxon-help.