Name
xsltproc — command line xslt processor
Synopsis
xsltproc
[[-V] |  [-v] |  [-o
file
] |  [--timing] |  [--repeat] |  [--debug] |  [--novalid] |  [--noout] |  [--maxdepth
val
] |  [--html] |  [--param
name
value
] |  [--stringparam
name
value
] |  [--nonet] |  [--path
paths
] |  [--load-trace] |  [--catalogs] |  [--xinclude] |  [--profile] |  [--dumpextensions] |  [--nowrite] |  [--nomkdir] |  [--writesubtree] |  [--nodtdattr]] [
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. 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 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.
--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,
entities or documents.
--path
paths
Use the list (separated by space or column) of filesystem paths
specified by
paths
to load
DTDs
, entities or documents.
--load-trace
Display to stderr all the documents loaded during the processing.
--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/
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.
--nodtdattr
Do not apply default attributes from the document's
DTD
.
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
9: internal processing error
10: processing was stopped by a terminating message
More Information
libxml web page:
http://www.xmlsoft.org/
http://www.xmlsoft.org/
W3C
XSLT page:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt
