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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 document's
           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 document's 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 user's 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 user's 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

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

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


AUTHOR
       John Fleck 
           Author.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2001, 2002



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