basexgui(1)

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💅 basexgui — the manual, but make it cute

okay bestie, welcome to basexgui(1) from The XML Database ✨ this is the page for the XML database system and XPath/XQuery processor, but make it graphical. GUI mode. Windows. Vibes. Let's go 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

basexgui — XML database system and XPath/XQuery processor (graphical mode)

like. it's the whole database thing but with an actual window you can look at with your eyeballs 👀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

basexgui [-d] [file]

that's it. that's the whole incantation. two little things and a file if you feel like it 💖

🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

okay so the options are not all typed out here (rude of them, i know 😭), but you can get a short description of each option either by running

$ basexgui -h

or by going to browse https://docs.basex.org/main/Command-Line_Options#gui 🌈

that's the tea. -h is your bestie here, she will tell you everything 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

basexgui starts a standalone, locally running instance of the BaseX database system. local legend behaviour, honestly 👑

so like, on top of all the main database functionality that basex(1) already gives you, the graphical mode serves up some genuinely innovative graphical frontends for visualizing your XML data 🌈✨ an advanced embedded XQuery Editor is coupled to those visualizations, so you get instant result feedback. type, see, slay. no cap.

and listen — you can pass XML and XQuery files in as parameters, and the behaviour depends on which one you hand over:

  • if you pass an XML file, a database instance gets created from this file 🗂️
  • if you pass an XQuery file, it gets opened in the XQuery editor 📝

iconic. effortless. periodt.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go read your sisters, they're all doing their own thing:

and here's the little lineup of files and folders that make this whole operation run, because knowing where your stuff lives is highkey essential 🧚:

  • .basexhome — can be created by a user to mark a folder as home directory
  • .basex — BaseX (standalone and server) properties
  • .basexgui — BaseX additional GUI properties
  • .basexhistory — contains commands that have been typed in most recently
  • ${basexhome}/data — default database directory
  • ${basexhome}/data/.logs — server logs
  • ${basexhome}/repo — package repository

BaseX Documentation Wiki: https://docs.basex.org 🌐

🕰️ HISTORY 🕰️

BaseX started as a research project of the Database and Information Systems Group (DBIS) at the University of Konstanz in 2005, and it soon turned into a feature-rich open source XML database and XPath/XQuery processor. glow-up of the century fr fr 💖🔥

📜 LICENSE 📜

New (3-clause) BSD License 🌈

💜 AUTHOR 💜

BaseX is primarily developed by Christian Grün <cg@basex.org> with the help of various contributors <https://basex.org/about/open-source/> 🫶

The man page was written by Alexander Holupirek <alex@holupirek.de> while packaging BaseX for Debian GNU/Linux 🎀

and that's the whole page bestie, mwah 💋 basexgui(1), The XML Database, last touched 24 July 2026 — go visualize some XML, you main character 🦋✨

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