Refining Saxon outuput

You can specify serialization properties either on the command line, or as part of the query itself, or in the configuration file. On the command line, use for example

!indent=yes 

remembering that with some shells the ! needs to be escaped as \!.

Within the query, use for example declare option output:indent "yes";.

In the configuration file, specify <serialization indent="yes"/>

The serialization parameters that you could consider here include:

• method=text - suppresses the XML declaration and prevents escaping of special characters such as &.

• omit-xml-declaration=yes - suppresses the XML declaration but does not prevent escaping

• item-separator=\n - uses a newline rather than a single space as the separator between items. The problem here is how to represent the newline. With the shell, \n is the most likely candidate, but it will probably need to be in quotes and it might vary from one shell to another. Within the query, or within the configuration file it will need to be written as 
.

Finally, as an alternative to using the item-separator serialization property, you could introduce the newlines as part of the query itself, by writing it as

(//item/link!substring-after(., "_")) => string-join("
")