I&#39;m new to XQUERY so perhaps I misunderstand how to do what I want. I&#39;m trying to pass an external value to a variable in the query. I declared the variable as external at the top. Like this:<br>declare variable $inputstud as xs:string* external;<br>

<br> My understanding is that I now execute the program like this<br><br>java -cp basex-6.8-SNAPSHOT.jar org.basex.BaseX ~/MyDocuments/Dropbox/student_ind_detail.xq -binputstud=900426517<br><br>then in the where of my query  I do<br>

    where $u/ID eq $x/USERID and $u/IDNUMBER eq $inputstud<br><br>Unfortunately, for some reason this doesn&#39;t work. I&#39;d like to try this in the gui of basex to see if I can figure out what has gone wrong, but I can&#39;t figure out how to pipe external variable to the Gui, is there a way.<br>

Thanks<br>Randy<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Dr. Randall Reed<br>Assistant Professor, Dept. of Philosophy and Religion<br>Appalachian State University<br>