I don't think this works in 6.5.3, it's a more recent development.

Michael Kay

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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Shipra Dingare
> Sent: 06 November 2003 18:35
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> Subject: RE:  want to process file from STDIN
> 
> 
> 
> I'm sorry, where do I put the dash? 
> I've tried 
> 
>  cat 
> /partition/ltg/users/sdingar1/BIO/DATA_T1A/devtest.pos.xml |  
> java com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet -  mergeNPs.ltxml.nxl 
> 
> and 
> 
>  cat 
> /partition/ltg/users/sdingar1/BIO/DATA_T1A/devtest.pos.xml |  java 
> com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet mergeNPs.ltxml.nxl  -
> 
> I'm using Saxon 6.5.3
> -Shipra
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Michael Kay wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > Is it possible to use saxon to apply a stylesheet to a file
> > > that is read 
> > > from STDIN - I would like to apply a series of stylesheets in 
> > > a pipeline. Regards, Shipra
> > > 
> > In recent releases you can use "-" to indicate input from standard 
> > input.
> > 
> > But this isn't the best way of doing a pipeline. You don't need to 
> > serialize the result tree and then parse it again. You can create a 
> > pipeline of SAX filters, either by using the JAXP APIs, or by using 
> > the saxon:next-in-chain extension.
> > 
> > Also, using standard input suffers from the fact that it 
> doesn't have 
> > a known base URI, which means that relative URIs in the document 
> > cannot be resolved.
> > 
> > Michael Kay
> > 
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