Hi Amanda,

Thanks for the observation. It seems that we have accidentally dropped support for semicolon-separated catalog lists in a recent release (possibly with the alignments to the changed catalog resolver of a new JDK).

I have just uploaded a fix [1, 2]; I hope it does what I hope it does.

Best,

Christian

[1] https://files.basex.org/releases/latest/

[2] https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/commit/e1e6f51859db807773a55e206232fb57462746a4

Von: Amanda Galtman via BaseX-Talk <basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de>
Gesendet: Freitag, 3. Oktober 2025 01:13
An: basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de <basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de>
Betreff: [basex-talk] BaseX standalone with multiple catalog files

Hi, all.

Does someone have a syntax example for using multiple catalogs with BaseX v12.0 standalone on Windows? The Options page in the BaseX documentation says CATALOG can be a semicolon-separated list of files, so I tried the following, where both catalog files are in my working directory:

%BASEX120%\bin\basex -OCATALOG="catalog1.xml;catalog2.xml" -q"doc('mycat1:/document.xml')"

java -cp "%BASEX120%\BaseX.jar" -Dorg.basex.CATALOG="catalog1.xml;catalog2.xml" org.basex.BaseX -q"doc('mycat1:/document.xml')"

The error messages suggest that the catalogs are not being used. I also tried several syntax variations without success. Both syntaxes above work fine if I specify only one catalog instead of a semicolon-separated list.

For the record, the catalog1.xml file in my example commands is as below, and my document.xml file is in a subdirectory named "docs".

</catalog>

Thanks,

Amanda