Running Saxon in a shell to execute XQuery result in Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/xmlresolver/Resolver

Question

Following this answer:

cat xquery.txt
declare namespace w = "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main";
copy $input := doc("/tmp/file.xml")
modify delete node $input//w:rPr
return $input

Input file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<root xmlns:w="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main">
    <w:lvl w:ilvl="0">
      <w:rPr>
          TO REMOVE
      </w:rPr>
      <w:rPx>
        <w:rFonts w:ascii="Symbol" w:hAnsi="Symbol" w:hint="default"/>
      </w:rPx>
    </w:lvl>
</root>

$ java -cp "/path/to/lib/saxon-he-11.4.jar" net.sf.saxon.Query -qversion:3.1 -q:xquery.txt 
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/xmlresolver/Resolver
    at net.sf.saxon.lib.CatalogResourceResolver.<init>(CatalogResourceResolver.java:46)
    at net.sf.saxon.Configuration.init(Configuration.java:367)
    at net.sf.saxon.Configuration.<init>(Configuration.java:230)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
    at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:490)
    at java.base/java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:584)
    at net.sf.saxon.Configuration.newConfiguration(Configuration.java:246)
    at net.sf.saxon.Query.doQuery(Query.java:265)
    at net.sf.saxon.Query.main(Query.java:103)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.xmlresolver.Resolver
    at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:581)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:178)
    at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:522)
    ... 11 more

From doc

-q:input

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Another try with an older version:

$ java -cp "/path/to/lib/saxon9he.jar" net.sf.saxon.Query -qversion:3.0 -q:xquery.txt
Error on line 2 column 1 of xquery.txt:
  XPST0003 XQuery syntax error near #...rocessingml/2006/main"; copy $#:
    Unexpected token "copy" in path expression
Static error(s) in query

Answer 1

Based on the Saxon Home Edition (HE) documentation, it supports just the XQuery 3.1 Minimal Conformance. And it doesn't include the following:

Optional features not provided: XQuery 3.1 Schema Aware, XQuery 3.1 Typed Data, XQuery 3.1 Static Typing, XQuery Update 1.0

And you need XQuery Update support for your task.

It seems that you would need to use Saxon PE or EE editions for your objectives.

For the reference: Product Description for SaxonJ-HE (Home Edition)