saxon doesnt provide read-binary?

[lb42]

I am not sure if I understand your documentation correctly, but I thought this should work:
saxon word-empty.xml docx.xsl filename=ROM18860_Macri.docx

With Saxon-HE 9.9.1.6J from Saxonica, I get the following message:

Static error in {file:read-binary($filename)} in expression in xsl:sequence/@select on line 16 column 62 of docx.xsl:
XPST0017: Cannot find a 1-argument function named Q{http://expath.org/ns/file}read-binary()
Errors were reported during stylesheet compilation

[dariok]

@lb42 Lou, I’m really sorry I did not answer earlier – I completely overlooked it until now.

It seems the ExPath file:* and archive:* functions are only available in Saxon PE and Saxon EE.
This is different from the earlier zip:* functions (available until Saxon 9.5) which were available in Saxon HE, too.

Indeed, it means that the extraction from a .docx is currently not possible using Saxon HE on the command line. I will have to add that to the documentation and check the availability of these functions with @use-when.
The only way on the command line is to get a XML by saving directly as Word XML or by using the XQuery implementation from inside BaseX or eXist as these implement the ExPath file and archive functions independently.