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On the Java side, it seems and the documentation suggests that you can use both normal XSLT documents (e.g. .xsl files) and SEF exports (e.g. .sef files) with any API where a stylesheet source is provided. It also works fine with the XPath 3.1 fn:transform function for me to provide either an XSLT file or a SEF file for the stylesheet-location so the following works to run both type of stylesheets

transform(
    map { 
        'stylesheet-location' : 'https://martin-honnen.github.io/xslt/2021/includes/base-uri-test1-relocate-off.xsl.sef', 
        'source-location' : 'https://martin-honnen.github.io/xslt/2021/sample-uris1.xml' 
        
    }
)?output/uris/uri/@resolve-uri/data(),
'----',
transform(
    map { 
        'stylesheet-location' : 'https://martin-honnen.github.io/xslt/2021/includes/base-uri-test1.xsl', 
        'source-location' : 'https://martin-honnen.github.io/xslt/2021/sample-uris1.xml' 
        
    }
)?output/uris/uri/@resolve-uri/data()

Even stylesheet-text works with both .xsl and .sef files e.g.

transform(
    map { 
        'stylesheet-text' : 'https://martin-honnen.github.io/xslt/2021/includes/base-uri-test1-relocate-off.xsl.sef' => unparsed-text(), 
        'source-location' : 'https://martin-honnen.github.io/xslt/2021/sample-uris1.xml' 
        
    }
)?output/uris/uri/@resolve-uri/data(),
'----',
transform(
    map { 
        'stylesheet-base-uri' : 'https://martin-honnen.github.io/xslt/2021/includes/base-uri-test1.xsl',
        'stylesheet-text' : 'https://martin-honnen.github.io/xslt/2021/includes/base-uri-test1.xsl' => unparsed-text(), 
        'source-location' : 'https://martin-honnen.github.io/xslt/2021/sample-uris1.xml' 
        
    }
)?output/uris/uri/@resolve-uri/data()

With Saxon JS 2.3, however, I am struggling to provide an .sef.json as the stylesheet-location or stylesheet-text the fn:transform function, it seems Saxon tries to parse the stylesheet as XML and obviously fails.

Is that intended?

Or should Saxon-JS handle .sef.json for fn:transform the same as Saxon Java handles .sef?

One test case is at https://martin-honnen.github.io/xslt/2021/transformFunctionTest3.html, doing

        const result = SaxonJS.XPath.evaluate(`
transform(
    map { 
        'stylesheet-base-uri' : 'https://martin-honnen.github.io/xslt/2021/includes/base-uri-test1.xsl-relocate-off.sef.json',
        'stylesheet-text' : 'includes/base-uri-test1.xsl-relocate-off.sef.json' => unparsed-text(), 
        'source-node' : 'sample-uris1.xml' => doc()
        
    }
)?output/uris/uri/@resolve-uri/data()        
        `,
         []);
        console.log(result);

but throwing an error "Uncaught at SaxonJS2.js:4529":

code: "FODC0002"
message: "Misplaced or malformed markup: This page contains the following errors:error on line 1 at column 1: Document is empty\nBelow is a rendering of the page up to the first error."
name: "XError"

that suggests the JSON SEF is parsed as XML.