db2x_xsltproc(1)                   docbook2X                  db2x_xsltproc(1)



NAME
       db2x_xsltproc - XSLT processor invocation wrapper

SYNOPSIS
       db2x_xsltproc [options] xml-document

DESCRIPTION
       db2x_xsltproc invokes the XSLT 1.0 processor for docbook2X.

       This command applies the XSLT stylesheet (usually given by the
       --stylesheet option) to the XML document in the file xml-document.  The
       result is written to standard output (unless changed with --output).

       To read the source XML document from standard input, specify - as the
       input document.

OPTIONS
       --version
              Display the docbook2X version.

   TRANSFORMATION OUTPUT OPTIONS
       --output file, -o file
              Write output to the given file (or URI), instead of standard
              output.

   SOURCE DOCUMENT OPTIONS
       --xinclude, -I
              Process XInclude directives in the source document.

       --sgml, -S
              Indicate that the input document is SGML instead of XML.  You
              need this set this option if xml-document is actually a SGML
              file.

              SGML parsing is implemented by conversion to XML via sgml2xml(1)
              from the SP package (or osx(1) from the OpenSP package). All tag
              names in the SGML file will be normalized to lowercase (i.e. the
              -xlower option of sgml2xml(1) is used). ID attributes are
              available for the stylesheet (i.e. option -xid). In addition,
              any ISO SDATA entities used in the SGML document are
              automatically converted to their XML Unicode equivalents. (This
              is done by a sed filter.)

              The encoding of the SGML document, if it is not us-ascii, must
              be specified with the standard SP environment variables:
              SP_CHARSET_FIXED=1 SP_ENCODING=encoding.  (Note that XML files
              specify their encoding with the XML declaration <?xml
              version="1.0" encoding="encoding" ?> at the top of the file.)

              The above conversion options cannot be changed. If you desire
              different conversion options, you should invoke sgml2xml(1)
              manually, and then pass the results of that conversion to this
              program.

   RETRIEVAL OPTIONS
       --catalogs catalog-files, -C catalog-files
              Specify additional XML catalogs to use for resolving Formal
              Public Identifiers or URIs. SGML catalogs are not supported.

              These catalogs are not used for parsing an SGML document under
              the --sgml option. Use the environment variable
              SGML_CATALOG_FILES instead to specify the catalogs for parsing
              the SGML document.

       --network, -N
              db2x_xsltproc will normally refuse to load external resources
              from the network, for security reasons.  If you do want to load
              from the network, set this option.

              Usually you want to have installed locally the relevent DTDs and
              other files, and set up catalogs for them, rather than load them
              automatically from the network.

   STYLESHEET OPTIONS
       --stylesheet file, -s file
              Specify the filename (or URI) of the stylesheet to use.  The
              special values man and texi are accepted as abbreviations, to
              specify that xml-document is in DocBook and should be converted
              to man pages or Texinfo (respectively).

       --param name=expr, -p name=expr
              Add or modify a parameter to the stylesheet.  name is a XSLT
              parameter name, and expr is an XPath expression that evaluates
              to the desired value for the parameter. (This means that strings
              must be quoted, in addition to the usual quoting of shell
              arguments; use --string-param to avoid this.)

       --string-param name=string, -g name=string
              Add or modify a string-valued parameter to the stylesheet.

              The string must be encoded in UTF-8 (regardless of the locale
              character encoding).

   DEBUGGING AND PROFILING
       --debug, -d
              Display, to standard error, logs of what is happening during the
              XSL transformation.

       --nesting-limit n, -D n
              Change the maximum number of nested calls to XSL templates, used
              to detect potential infinite loops.  If not specified, the limit
              is 500 (libxslt's default).

       --profile, -P
              Display profile information: the total number of calls to each
              template in the stylesheet and the time taken for each. This
              information is output to standard error.

       --xslt-processor processor, -X processor
              Select the underlying XSLT processor used. The possible choices
              for processor are: libxslt, saxon, xalan-j.

              The default processor is whatever was set when docbook2X was
              built.  libxslt is recommended (because it is lean and fast),
              but SAXON is much more robust and would be more helpful when
              debugging stylesheets.

              All the processors have XML catalogs support enabled.
              (docbook2X requires it.)  But note that not all the options
              above work with processors other than the libxslt one.

ENVIRONMENT
       XML_CATALOG_FILES
              Specify XML Catalogs.  If not specified, the standard catalog
              (/etc/xml/catalog) is loaded, if available.

       DB2X_XSLT_PROCESSOR
              Specify the XSLT processor to use.  The effect is the same as
              the --xslt-processor option. The primary use of this variable is
              to allow you to quickly test different XSLT processors without
              having to add --xslt-processor to every script or make file in
              your documentation build system.

CONFORMING TO
       XML Stylesheet Language - Transformations (XSLT), version 1.0 <http://
       www.w3.org/TR/xslt> , a W3C Recommendation.

NOTES
       In its earlier versions (< 0.8.4), docbook2X required XSLT extensions
       to run, and db2x_xsltproc was a special libxslt-based processor that
       had these extensions compiled-in. When the requirement for XSLT
       extensions was dropped, db2x_xsltproc became a Perl script which
       translates the options to db2x_xsltproc to conform to the format
       accepted by the stock xsltproc(1) which comes with libxslt.

       The prime reason for the existence of this script is backward
       compatibility with any scripts or make files that invoke docbook2X.
       However, it also became easy to add in support for invoking other XSLT
       processors with a unified command-line interface.  Indeed, there is
       nothing special in this script to docbook2X, or even to DocBook, and it
       may be used for running other sorts of stylesheets if you desire.
       Certainly the author prefers using this command, because its invocation
       format is sane and is easy to use. (e.g. no typing long class names for
       the Java-based processors!)

AUTHOR
       Steve Cheng <stevecheng@users.sourceforge.net>.

SEE ALSO
       The docbook2X manual (in Texinfo or HTML format) fully describes how to
       convert DocBook to man pages and Texinfo.

       Up-to-date information about this program can be found at the docbook2X
       Web site <http://docbook2x.sourceforge.net/> .

       You may wish to consult the documentation that comes with libxslt,
       SAXON, or Xalan. The W3C XSLT 1.0 specification would be useful for
       writing stylesheets.



docbook2X 0.8.8                  3 March 2007                 db2x_xsltproc(1)
