RE: [xml-dev] standard vs. implementation tools for XQuery

> Reading the documentation, it appears that Saxon accepts the query 
> from the command line. This could be inconvenient for large, complex, 
> multiline queries. Is there anyway to read the query from stdin or 
> from a file?

Of course you can get the query from a file or from stdin. 

Read it again, more carefully.

http://saxon.sourceforge.net/saxon7.8/using-xquery.html#Command-line

Michael Kay