Settings | xsql

SET <setting> = ON|OFF is a global setting, not an attribute write — it needs no USE, can appear anywhere in a script, and applies to the whole run. In the REPL, settings persist across statements in the same session.

SET FORMAT = OFF;          compact single-line XML output
SET IGNORE_COMMENTS = OFF; preserve XML comments in loaded documents
ANALYZE;                   print per-stage timings to stderr

Accepted values: ON/OFF, also TRUE/FALSE/1/0. Setting names are case-insensitive.

Setting	Default	Effect
`FORMAT`	`ON`	`ON`: pretty-printed XML output. `OFF`: compact, one line per document/selected element.
`IGNORE_COMMENTS`	`ON`	`ON`: XML comments are dropped when parsing. `OFF`: comments are preserved and re-emitted (they're never loop elements — a `FOREACH` never binds to a comment).
`ANALYZE`	`OFF`	`ON`: after the run, prints a per-stage timing report to stderr — see CLI: Diagnostics.

ANALYZE; on its own is shorthand for SET ANALYZE = ON;.