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Chapter 5  Command Line Tools

Galax supports the following stand-alone command-line tools:
galax-run
The Galax XQuery interpreter.
galax-parse
XML document parser and validator.
galax-mapschema
XML Schema validator. Outputs XML Schema in XQuery type system.

5.1  galax-run : The Galax XQuery interpreter

The simplest way to use Galax is by calling the 'galax-run' interpreter from the command line. The interpreter takes an XQuery input file, evaluates it, and yields the result on standard output.

For instance, the following commands from the Galax home directory:
%  echo "<two>  1+1  </two>" > test.xq
%  $(GALAXHOME)/bin/galax-run test.xq
<two>2</two>
evaluates the simple query <two> { 1+1 } </two> and prints the XML value <two>2</two>.

The query interpreter has five processing stages: parsing an XQuery expression; normalizing an XQuery expression into an XQuery core expression; static typing of a core expression; optimizing a core expression; and evaluating a core expression.

Parsing is always enabled. By default, the other phases are:
   -normalize on 
   -static off   
   -optim off    
   -dynamic on 
By default, all results (XML answer, inferred type, etc.) are written to standard output.

The command line options permit various combinations of phases, printing intermediate expressions, and redirecting output to multiple output files.
  
    Usage: galax-run [-version] [-context file] [-pic]  
      [-xml-whitespace]   [-xquery-whitespace]
      [-normalize on/off] [-static on/off] [-optim on/off] [-dynamic on/off] 
      [-print-xml on/off] [-output-xml filename]  
      [-print-type on/off] [-output-type filename]  
      [-print-expr on/off] [-output-expr filename]
      [-print-normalized-expr on/off] [-output-normalized-expr filename]  
      [-print-typed-expr on/off] [-output-typed-expr filename] 
      [-print-optimized-expr on/off] [-output-optimized-expr filename] 
      [-pretty-print filename] [-print-type-annotations on/off] 
      [-output-all filename]  [-serialize-wf] [-debug] [-verbose] 
      [-projection on/off] [-optimized-projection on/off]
      [-print-projection on/off] [-output-projection filename]
      [-print-projected-file on/off] [-output-projected-file filename]
      [-monitor on/off] [-output-monitor filename]
      [-blocking on/off]
      [-base-uri URI]
      query-filename(s)
    
      Evaluate XQuery queries in query-filename(s)
      Default values are in square brackets []:

      -version     Prints Galax version number
      -context     Loads the static context from file. This static
                   context is passed to all queries.

      -xquery-whitespace  Preserves whitespace in XQuery expressions [off]
      -xml-whitespace     Preserves whitespace in XML documents [off]
      -pic                Preserves PI's and comments in input documents [off]
    
      -normalize   Normalization phase [on]
      -static      Static analysis phase (requires -normalize on) [off]
      -optim       Optimization phase (most useful with -static on) [off]
      -dynamic     Evaluation phase (requires -normalize on) [on]
    
      -print-xml   Print XML result [on]
      -output-xml  Output XML to result file [standard output]

      -print-type  Print type of expression [off]
      -output-type Output type to file. [standard output]
    
      -print-expr  Print input expression [off]
      -output-expr Output expr to file. [standard output]
    
      -print-normalized-expr  Print normalized expression [off]
      -output-normalized-expr Output normalized expression to file. [standard output]
    
      -print-typed-expr       Print typed expression [off] 
      -output-typed-expr      Output typed expression to file. [standard output]
    
      -print-optimized-expr   Print optimized expression [off] 
      -output-optimized-expr  Output optimized expression to file. [standard output]
    
      -print-type-annotations  Print type annotations of expressions [off] 

      -pretty-print            Pretty printing the whole query, with
                               all of the results to file 'filename_pretty.xq'
 
      -monitor on              Monitor & print memory and CPU usage
      -output-monitor filename
      -blocking                Stops at the first error
      -base-uri                Sets the default base URI in the static context

      -output-all    Output everything to file. [off] 
      -serialize-wf  Serialize well-formed XML.  By default, result
                     is serialized as XQuery data model value.

      -projection            Projection of documents
      -optimized-projection  Optimized projection of documents
      -print-projection      Prints the projection paths
      -output-projection     Output the projections paths to a file.

      -debug         Emit debugging information
      -verbose       Emit descriptive headers in output [off]

      -help  display this list of options
      --help display this list of options

5.2  galax-parse: XML parser and XML Schema validator

  Usage: validate [-schema file -root qname [-prefix prefix]]
  [-typesyntax] [-print] [-whitespace] [-dm] [-wf] file(s)

     Validates XML documents in file(s) using specified schema

    -print       Pretty print the input document
    -whitespace  Preserve white space
    -dm          Also build the data model instance
    -wf          Checks only for well-formedness
    -prefix      Schema namespace prefix
    -typesyntax  Uses XQuery type system syntax instead of XML Schema syntax
    -schema      XML Schema file
    -root        Schema root type
    -help        display this list of options
    --help       display this list of options

5.3  galax-mapschema : XML Schema validator

    Usage: galax-mapschema [-prefix prefix] [-typesyntax] [-output file]
    schemafile(s)

    Maps schemas in schemafile(s) into XQuery type expressions.

    -prefix Namespace prefix
    -output Emit mapped schema in file
    -typesyntax Uses XQuery type system syntax instead of XML Schema syntax
    -help  display this list of options
    --help display this list of options

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