xsltproc(1)

NAME

   xsltproc - command line XSLT processor

SYNOPSIS

   xsltproc [[-V | --version] [-v | --verbose] [{-o | --output} {FILE |
            DIRECTORY}] | --timing | --repeat | --debug | --novalid |
            --noout | --maxdepth VALUE | --html | --encoding ENCODING  |
            --param PARAMNAME PARAMVALUE  |
            --stringparam PARAMNAME PARAMVALUE  | --nonet |
            --path "PATH(S)" | --load-trace | --catalogs | --xinclude |
            [--profile | --norman] | --dumpextensions | --nowrite |
            --nomkdir | --writesubtree PATH | --nodtdattr] [STYLESHEET]
            {XML-FILE | -}

DESCRIPTION

   xsltproc is a command line tool for applying XSLT stylesheets to XML
   documents. It is part of libxslt(3), 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. It will use the standard input
   if a filename provided is -

   If a stylesheet is included in an XML document with a Stylesheet
   Processing Instruction, no stylesheet need to 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 or --output option.

OPTIONS

   xsltproc accepts the following options (in alphabetical order):

   --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.

   --debug
       Output an XML tree of the transformed document for debugging
       purposes.

   --dumpextensions
       Dumps the list of all registered extensions on stdout.

   --html
       The input document is an HTML file.

   --load-trace
       Display all the documents loaded during the processing to stderr.

   --maxdepth VALUE
       Adjust the maximum depth of the template stack before libxslt(3)
       concludes it is in an infinite loop. The default is 3000.

   --nodtdattr
       Do not apply default attributes from the documents DTD.

   --nomkdir
       Refuses to create directories.

   --nonet
       Do not use the Internet to fetch DTDs, entities or documents.

   --noout
       Do not output the result.

   --novalid
       Skip loading the documents DTD.

   --nowrite
       Refuses to write to any file or resource.

   -o or --output FILE | DIRECTORY
       Direct output to the given FILE. Using the option with a DIRECTORY
       directs the output files to the specified directory. This can be
       useful for multiple outputs (also known as "chunking") or manpage
       processing.

       Important
       The given directory must already exist.

       Note
       Make sure that FILE and DIRECTORY follow the "URI reference
       computation" as described in RFC 2396 and laters. This means, that
       e.g.  -o directory will maybe not work, but -o directory/ will.

   --encoding ENCODING
       Allow to specify the encoding for the input.

   --param PARAMNAME PARAMVALUE
       Pass a parameter of name PARAMNAME and value PARAMVALUE to the
       stylesheet. You may pass multiple name/value pairs up to a maximum
       of 32. If the value being passed is a string, you can use
       --stringparam instead, to avoid additional quote characters that
       appear in string expressions. Note: the XPath expression must be
       UTF-8 encoded.

   --path "PATH(S)"
       Use the (space- or colon-separated) list of filesystem paths
       specified by PATHS to load DTDs, entities or documents. Enclose
       space-separated lists by quotation marks.

   --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.

   --repeat
       Run the transformation 20 times. Used for timing tests.

   --stringparam PARAMNAME PARAMVALUE
       Pass a parameter of name PARAMNAME and value PARAMVALUE where
       PARAMVALUE is a string rather than a node identifier.  Note: The
       string must be UTF-8 encoded.

   --timing
       Display the time used for parsing the stylesheet, parsing the
       document and applying the stylesheet and saving the result.
       Displayed in milliseconds.

   -v or --verbose
       Output each step taken by xsltproc in processing the stylesheet and
       the document.

   -V or --version
       Show the version of libxml(3) and libxslt(3) used.

   --writesubtree PATH
       Allow file write only within the PATH subtree.

   --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/

ENVIRONMENT

   SGML_CATALOG_FILES
       SGML catalog behavior can be changed by redirecting queries to the
       users own set of catalogs. This can be done by setting the
       SGML_CATALOG_FILES environment variable to a list of catalogs. An
       empty one should deactivate loading the default /etc/sgml/catalog
       catalog.

   XML_CATALOG_FILES
       XML catalog behavior can be changed by redirecting queries to the
       users own set of catalogs. This can be done by setting the
       XML_CATALOG_FILES environment variable to a list of catalogs. An
       empty one should deactivate loading the default /etc/xml/catalog
       catalog.

DIAGNOSTICS

   xsltproc return codes provide information that can be used when calling
   it from scripts.

   0
       No error (normal operation)

   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

   11
       Could not write the result to the output file

SEE ALSO

   libxml(3), libxslt(3)

   More information can be found at

   *   libxml(3) web page http://www.xmlsoft.org/

   *   W3C XSLT page http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt

AUTHOR

   John Fleck <jfleck@inkstain.net>
       Author.

COPYRIGHT

   Copyright  2001, 2002

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