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Some time ago I did a major rewrite of the sandbox application:

http://demo.exist-db.org/sandbox2/sandbox.xql

It is nearly usable, but the syntax-highlighting editor component is limited. In particular, it has no support for safari.

Issues with util:eval==

Also, the sandbox still uses util:eval to execute the entered XQuery code. This works well for simple queries, but can have side-effects if the query imports external modules or tries to access the http context.

For the purpose of the sandbox, it would be better to post the user-supplied query to a dedicated servlet, which executes the code and sends back a result.