2001, 2002 John Fleck

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This is release 0.4 of the xsltproc Manual. xsltproc 1 xsltproc command line xslt processor xsltproc -V -v -o file --timing --repeat --debug --novalid --noout --maxdepth val --html --param name value --stringparam name value --nonet --catalogs --xinclude --profile --dumpextensions --nowrite --nomkdir --writesubtree stylesheet file1 file2 .... xsltproc is a command line tool for applying XSLT stylesheets to XML documents. It is part of libxslt, the XSLT C library for GNOME. While it was developed as part of the GNOME project, it can operate independently of the GNOME desktop. xsltproc is invoked from the command line with the name of the stylesheet to be used followed by the name of the file or files to which the stylesheet is to be applied. If a stylesheet is included in an XML document with a Stylesheet Processing Instruction, no stylesheet need be named at the command line. xsltproc will automatically detect the included stylesheet and use it. By default, output is to stdout. You can specify a file for output using the -o option. -V or --version Show the version of libxml and libxslt used. -v or --verbose Output each step taken by xsltproc in processing the stylesheet and the document. -o or --output file Direct output to the file named file. For multiple outputs, also known as "chunking", -o directory/ directs the output files to a specified directory. The directory must already exist. --timing Display the time used for parsing the stylesheet, parsing the document and applying the stylesheet and saving the result. Displayed in milliseconds. --repeat Run the transformation 20 times. Used for timing tests. --debug Output an XML tree of the transformed document for debugging purposes. --novalid Skip loading the document's DTD. --noout Do not output the result. --maxdepth value Adjust the maximum depth of the template stack before libxslt concludes it is in an infinite loop. The default is 500. --html The input document is an HTML file. --param name value Pass a parameter of name name and value value to the stylesheet. You may pass multiple name/value pairs up to a maximum of 32. If the value being passed is a string rather than a node identifier, use --stringparam instead. --stringparam name value Pass a paramenter of name name and value value where value is a string rather than a node identifier. (Note: The string must be utf-8.) --nonet Do not use the Internet to fetch DTD's or entities. --catalogs Use the SGML catalog specified in SGML_CATALOG_FILES to resolve the location of external entities. By default, xsltproc looks for the catalog specified in XML_CATALOG_FILES. If that is not specified, it uses /etc/xml/catalog. --xinclude Process the input document using the Xinclude specification. More details on this can be found in the Xinclude specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/ --profile or --norman Output profiling information detailing the amount of time spent in each part of the stylesheet. This is useful in optimizing stylesheet performance. --dumpextensions Dumps the list of all registered extensions on stdout. --nowrite Refuses to write to any file or resource. --nomkdir Refuses to create directories. --writesubtree path Allow file write only within the path subtree. xsltproc's return codes provide information that can be used when calling it from scripts. 0: normal 1: no argument 2: too many parameters 3: unknown option 4: failed to parse the stylesheet 5: error in the stylesheet 6: error in one of the documents 7: unsupported xsl:output method 8: string parameter contains both quote and double-quotes 9: internal processing error 10: processing was stopped by a terminating message libxml web page: http://www.xmlsoft.org/ W3C XSLT page: http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt