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6 xsltproc - command line XSLT processor
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9 xsltproc [[-V | --version] [-v | --verbose] [{-o | --output} {FILE |
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11 --noout | --maxdepth VALUE | --html | --encoding ENCODING |
12 --param PARAMNAME PARAMVALUE |
13 --stringparam PARAMNAME PARAMVALUE | --nonet |
14 --path "PATH(S)" | --load-trace | --catalogs | --xinclude |
15 [--profile | --norman] | --dumpextensions | --nowrite |
16 --nomkdir | --writesubtree PATH | --nodtdattr] [STYLESHEET]
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20 xsltproc is a command line tool for applying XSLT stylesheets to XML
21 documents. It is part of libxslt(3), the XSLT C library for GNOME.
22 While it was developed as part of the GNOME project, it can operate
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25 xsltproc is invoked from the command line with the name of the
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30 If a stylesheet is included in an XML document with a Stylesheet
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42 Use the SGML catalog specified in SGML_CATALOG_FILES to resolve the
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52 Dumps the list of all registered extensions on stdout.
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58 Display all the documents loaded during the processing to stderr.
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61 Adjust the maximum depth of the template stack before libxslt(3)
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83 Direct output to the given FILE. Using the option with a DIRECTORY
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100 Pass a parameter of name PARAMNAME and value PARAMVALUE to the
101 stylesheet. You may pass multiple name/value pairs up to a maximum
102 of 32. If the value being passed is a string, you can use
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108 Use the (space- or colon-separated) list of filesystem paths
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112 --profile or --norman
113 Output profiling information detailing the amount of time spent in
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118 Run the transformation 20 times. Used for timing tests.
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121 Pass a parameter of name PARAMNAME and value PARAMVALUE where
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126 Display the time used for parsing the stylesheet, parsing the
127 document and applying the stylesheet and saving the result.
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131 Output each step taken by xsltproc in processing the stylesheet and
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135 Show the version of libxml(3) and libxslt(3) used.
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141 Process the input document using the XInclude specification. More
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147 SGML catalog behavior can be changed by redirecting queries to the
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154 XML catalog behavior can be changed by redirecting queries to the
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161 xsltproc return codes provide information that can be used when calling
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205 · libxml(3) web page http://www.xmlsoft.org/
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211 John Fleck <jfleck@inkstain.net>
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