Apache Ant/Execute an XQuery

Motivation You want to execute an XQuery that is stored in an eXist database. Remote execution of an inline query <target name="run-one-inline-test-local"> <description>Execute a single xUnit test on a local system</description> <echo message="Run an inline XQuery"/> <xdb:xquery uri="xmldb:exist://localhost/xmlrpc/db" user="${user}" password="${password}" outputproperty="result"> xquery version "1.0"; let $message := 'Hello World!' return $message </xdb:xquery> <echo message="Result = ${result}"/> </target> Note that you only can return a string in this example. Any XML content in the query will generate an error. If you want to return an XML file into a property you will need to wrap you query in a CDATA structure: <!-- This version uses CDATA to put an XML file into the result property --> <target name="run-xquery-cdata"> <xdb:xquery user="admin" password="" uri="${test-server}/db" outputproperty="result"><![CDATA[ xquery version "1.0"; let $message := 'Hello World' return <result>{$message}</result> ]]></xdb:xquery> <echo message="Result = ${result}"/> </target> Execute an XQuery Stored in Local Drive hello-world.xq: xquery version "1.0"; let $message := 'Hello World' return <result>{$message}</result> This is similar to the version above but you will note that the queryfile attribute has been added. <target name="run-in-database-query" depends="load-test-resources"> <xdb:xquery user="${user}" password="${password}" uri="xmldb:exist://localhost/xmlrpc/db" queryfile="hello-world.xq" outputproperty="result"/> <echo message="Result = ${result}"/> </target> Note for the above to work the file hello-word.xq MUST be in the same directory as the build script. Adding Execute Permissions <target name="add-execute"> <!-- make the controller.xql file executable --> <xdb:chmod uri="${local-uri}/apps/myapp" resource="controller.xql" permissions="group=+execute,other=+execute"/> </target> Where the local-uri is something like: xmldb:exist://localhost:8080/exist/xmlrpc/db for the default installation path