Saxon

In principle it should be possible to set the parser features and parser properties from the command line.

In the Saxon 9.6 release documentation the XML_PARSER_FEATURE and XML_PARSER-PROPERTY are features, see:

http://www.saxonica.com/documentation/index.html#!configuration/config-features

It should work as follows:

java -cp saxon9he.jar net.sf.saxon.Transform -expand:off --parserFeature?uri=http://xml.org/sax/features/external-parameter-entities:true

However, the above command fails dues to the colon in the URL. i.e.:

Transformation failed: http://saxon.sf.net/feature/parserFeature?uri=http must be 'true' or 'false' (or on|off, yes|no, 1|0)

Programatically it works in the API, but in the code for the command line we need to fix it to only look for the last colon when switching on or off the parser option.