Command line interfaces

In options such as -s and -xsl, URIs prefixed with classpath: can be supplied to locate documents via the classpath. These are recognized (along with the prefixes http: and file:) as being URIs rather than filenames, avoiding the need to specify the -u option.

On the Transform command line:

• a command-line option -pack has been added to load packages via a catalog file. The argument is considered a URL if either the -u option has been set, or the option argument starts with http: or file:; otherwise it is treated as a file name. For details of the package catalog see the Javadoc documentation of class PackageCatalog.
• the -ea option enables assertions (that is, the XSLT 3.0 xsl:assert instruction). Assertions are now disabled by default.
• the -xsl option can identify either a source stylesheet module, or a compiled stylesheet.
• if the -it option is specified with no template name, the initial template name xsl:initial-template is assumed.
• the -export option can be used to specify a destination to save the compiled version of the stylesheet.
• the -nogo option can be used to perform static analysis of the stylesheet only, stopping before the execution phase.

On the Validate command line:

• The -report option provides a destination for a validation report in XML format.
• The -export option can be used to specify a destination to save the compiled version of the schema (the option -scmout remains available as a synonym).
• The -xsd option can identify either a source XSD document, or a compiled schema in SCM format.