Christian,
Thanks for that, it worked great. Though for some reason the command line still isn't working even though it does through the GUI. But another related question, If I want to set more than one variable how do I do it? separating set bindings commands with a ; seem only to invoke the last one, not the first

Thanks in advance
Randy

On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Randy,

> java -cp basex-6.8-SNAPSHOT.jar org.basex.BaseX
> ~/MyDocuments/Dropbox/student_ind_detail.xq -binputstud=900426517
>
> then in the where of my query  I do
>     where $u/ID eq $x/USERID and $u/IDNUMBER eq $inputstud
>
> Unfortunately, for some reason this doesn't work.

What's the problem here?

> I'd like to try this in
> the gui of basex to see if I can figure out what has gone wrong, but I can't
> figure out how to pipe external variable to the Gui, is there a way.

Yes, that's possible: you can type "set bindings" command in the input
field, as shown in the screenshot. Commas can be used as delimiters if
several variables are to be assigned.

Hope this helps,
Christian



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Dr. Randall Reed
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Philosophy and Religion
Appalachian State University