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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 on http://opensolaris.org.  Documentation for libxslt is available on-line at http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/

								    2002 Jun 27 						       xsltproc(1)