1 <html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>xsltproc</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.48"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry"><a name="id2589055"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>xsltproc — command line xslt processor</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><tt>xsltproc</tt> [-V | -v | -o <i><tt>file</tt></i> | --timing | --repeat | --debug | --novalid | --noout | --maxdepth <i><tt>val</tt></i> | --html | --docbook | --param <i><tt>name</tt></i> <i><tt>value</tt></i> | --stringparam <i><tt>name</tt></i> <i><tt>value</tt></i> | --nonet | --catalogs | --xinclude | --profile | --dumpextensions] [<tt><i><tt>stylesheet</tt></i></tt>] [<i><tt>file1</tt></i>] [<i><tt>file2</tt></i>] [<i><tt>....</tt></i>]</p></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="introduction"></a><h2>Introduction</h2><p>
2 xsltproc is a command line tool for applying
3 XSLT stylesheets to XML
4 documents. It is part of libxslt, the XSLT C
5 library for GNOME. While it was developed as part of the GNOME project, it
6 can operate independently of the GNOME desktop.
8 xsltproc is invoked from the command line with
9 the name of the stylesheet to be used followed by the name of the file or
10 files to which the stylesheet is to be applied.
12 If a stylesheet is included in an XML document with a
13 Stylesheet Processing Instruction, no stylesheet need be named at the
14 command line. xsltproc will automatically
15 detect the included stylesheet and use it.
17 By default, output is to stdout. You can specify a file for output using
18 the <tt>-o</tt> option.
19 </p></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="options"></a><h2>Command Line Options</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><tt>-V</tt> or <tt>--version</tt></span></dt><dd>Show the version of
20 libxml and libxslt used.
21 </dd><dt><span class="term">
22 <tt>-v</tt> or <tt>--verbose</tt></span></dt><dd>Output each step taken
23 by xsltproc in processing the stylesheet and the document.
24 </dd><dt><span class="term">
25 <tt>-o</tt> or <tt>--output</tt> <i><tt>file</tt></i></span></dt><dd>Direct output to the file named
26 <i><tt>file</tt></i>. For multiple outputs, also known as
27 "chunking", <tt>-o</tt> <tt>directory/</tt> directs the
28 output files to a specified directory. The directory must already exist.
29 </dd><dt><span class="term">
30 <tt>--timing</tt></span></dt><dd>Display the time used for parsing the
31 stylesheet, parsing the document and applying the stylesheet and saving
32 the result. Displayed in milliseconds.
33 </dd><dt><span class="term">
34 <tt>--repeat</tt></span></dt><dd>Run the transformation 20 times. Used for
36 </dd><dt><span class="term">
37 <tt>--debug</tt></span></dt><dd>Output an XML tree of the
38 transformed document for debugging purposes.
39 </dd><dt><span class="term">
40 <tt>--novalid</tt></span></dt><dd>Skip loading the document's DTD.
41 </dd><dt><span class="term">
42 <tt>--noout</tt></span></dt><dd>Do not output the result.
43 </dd><dt><span class="term">
44 <tt>--maxdepth</tt> <i><tt>value</tt></i></span></dt><dd>Adjust the
45 maximum depth of the template stack before
46 libxslt concludes it is in an infinite
47 loop. The default is 500.
48 </dd><dt><span class="term">
49 <tt>--html</tt></span></dt><dd>The input document is an HTML
51 </dd><dt><span class="term">
52 <tt>--docbook</tt></span></dt><dd>The input document is DocBook
54 </dd><dt><span class="term">
55 <tt>--param</tt> <i><tt>name</tt></i> <i><tt>value</tt></i></span></dt><dd>Pass a parameter of name
56 <i><tt>name</tt></i> and value
57 <i><tt>value</tt></i> to the stylesheet. You may pass multiple
58 name/value pairs up to a maximum of 32. If the value being passed is a
59 string rather than a node identifier, use
60 <tt>--stringparam</tt> instead.
61 </dd><dt><span class="term">
62 <tt>--stringparam</tt> <i><tt>name</tt></i> <i><tt>value</tt></i></span></dt><dd>Pass a paramenter of name <i><tt>name</tt></i> and
63 value <i><tt>value</tt></i> where
64 <i><tt>value</tt></i> is a string rather than a node
65 identifier. (Note: The string must be utf-8.) </dd><dt><span class="term">
66 <tt>--nonet</tt></span></dt><dd>Do not use the Internet to fetch DTD's or
68 </dd><dt><span class="term">
69 <tt>--catalogs</tt></span></dt><dd>Use catalogs to resolve the location of
70 external entities. This speeds DTD resolution. By having a
71 catalog file point to a local version of the DTD,
72 xsltproc does not have to use the
73 Internet to fetch the DTD. xsltproc
74 uses the catalog identified by the environmental variable
75 <tt>SGML_CATALOG_FILES</tt>.
76 </dd><dt><span class="term">
77 <tt>--xinclude</tt></span></dt><dd>Process the input document using the
78 Xinclude specification. More details on this can be found in the Xinclude
79 specification: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/" target="_top">http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/</a>
80 </dd><dt><span class="term">
81 <tt>--profile</tt> or <tt>--norman</tt></span></dt><dd>Output profiling
82 information detailing the amount of time spent in each part of the
83 stylesheet. This is useful in optimizing stylesheet performance.
84 </dd><dt><span class="term">
85 <tt>--dumpextensions</tt></span></dt><dd>Dumps the list of all registered extensions on stdout.
86 </dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="return"></a><h2>Return values</h2><p>xsltproc's return codes provide information
87 that can be used when calling it from scripts.</p><p>0: normal</p><p>1: no argument</p><p>2: too many parameters</p><p>3: unknown option</p><p>4: failed to parse the stylesheet</p><p>5: error in the stylesheet</p><p>6: error in one of the documents</p><p>7: unsupported xsl:output method</p><p>8: string parameter contains both quote and double-quotes</p><p>9: internal processing error</p><p>10: processing was stopped by a terminating message</p></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="moreinfo"></a><h2>More Information</h2><p>libxml web page: <a href="http://www.xmlsoft.org/" target="_top">http://www.xmlsoft.org/</a></p><p>W3C XSLT page: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt" target="_top">http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt</a></p></div></div></body></html>