xsltproc(1)                                                   General Commands Manual                                                  xsltproc(1)

NAME

       xsltproc - command line xslt processor

SYNOPSIS

       xsltproc [-V | -v | -o  file  | --timing | --repeat | --debug | --novalid | --noout | --maxdepth  val  | --html | --docbook | --param  name
       value  | --stringparam  name   value  | --nonet | --warnnet | --catalogs | --xinclude | --profile] [stylesheet] [ file1 ] [ file2 ] [  ....
       ]

INTRODUCTION

       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.

COMMAND LINE OPTIONS

       -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.

       --docbook
              The input document is DocBook SGML.

       --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.

       --nonet
              Do not use the Internet to fetch DTD's or entities.

       --warnnet
              Output notification when DTD's or entities are fetched over the Internet.

       --catalogs
              Use  catalogs  to  resolve  the location of external entities. This speeds DTD resolution. By having a catalog file point to a local
              version of the DTD, xsltproc does not have to use the Internet to fetch the DTD. xsltproc uses the catalog identified by  the  envi-
              ronmental variable SGML_CATALOG_FILES.

       --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.

RETURN VALUES

       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

MORE INFORMATION

       libxml web page: http://www.xmlsoft.org/

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

AUTHOR

       Copyright 2001 by John Fleck  <jfleck@inkstain.net>.  This is release 0.2 of the xsltproc Manual.

NOTES

       Source for libxslt is available in the SUNWlxslS package.  Documentation for libxslt is available on-line at http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/

                                                                    2002 Jun 27                                                        xsltproc(1)