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NAME
saxonb-xslt - command line XSLT 2.0 processor
SYNOPSIS
saxonb-xslt [OPTION...] [-s:SOURCEFILE] [-xsl:STYLESHEET] [-o:OUTPUT] [NAME=VALUE...]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the saxonb-xslt command. This page was written for the Debian(TM)
distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has HTML documentation
which is shipped in the libsaxonb-java-doc package.
saxonb-xslt is a command line wrapper around the Saxon-B XSLT and XQuery processor. Using saxonb-xslt you
can process XML documents with XSLT 2.0 stylesheets directly from the command line. Internally,
saxonb-xslt is a wrapper around the Java class net.sf.saxon.Transform implemented by Saxon-B.
saxonb-xslt is usually invoked passing the 3 options made explicit in the above synopsis. Usually, those
options correspond respectively to the input XML file to be transformed, the XSLT stylesheet describing
the desired transformation, and the output file where to save the result. However, the meaning and the
need of passing them is affected by a number of other options that can be specified. See the option
reference below for more information.
Parameters
At the end of the command line, a list of parameters can be given. Parameters are passed using the syntax
NAME=VALUE, to specify parameters´ names and values.
A parameter name prefixed with "+" (plus sign) will be interpreted as a filesystem path parameter If the
path points to a single file, that file will be parsed as XML and its document node will be passed as the
parameter value. If the path points to a directory, all directly contained files will be parsed as XML
files, and the sequence of their document nodes will be passed as the parameter value.
A parameter name prefixed with "!" (exclamation mark) will be interpted as a output/serialization
parameter. See the specifications of XQuery and XSLT 2.0 for more information on output/serialization
parameters.
To pass parameters belonging to the non-null namespace, the syntax {uri}localname=value is provided.
Parameters will be visible as global variables during XSLT processing, provided they have been declared
with <xsl:param>. evaluation, provided they have been declared in the query prolog. See the XSLT
specification for more information on variables and their declarations.
OPTIONS
A summary of supported options is included below. Options can be passed in any order.
We first report the options which are shared by saxonb-xslt and saxonb-xquery, then those specific to
saxonb-xslt (or which have a different semantics).
Some options are flagged as "Saxon-SA only", such options work only if Saxon-SA is installed. Note that
Saxon-SA is a commercial product, as such it is not available in Debian.
Common options
-cr:classname
Specify a class to be used for processing collection URIs passed to the collection() function. The
class must implement net.sf.saxon.CollectionURIResolver.
-dtd: {[on] | [off]}
Enable or disable DTD validation. Default: off.
-expand: {[on] | [off]}
When validation is enabled, expand default values in validated documents. This option enables or
disables such an expansion. Default: on.
-explain [:filename]
Display an execution plan; the output is in XML format. If filename is not given it will be displayed
on standard output.
-ext: {[on] | [off]}
Enable or disable the ability to invoke external Java functions from query files and stylesheets.
Beware that enabling them is a potential security risk when processing untrusted files. Default: off.
-l: {[on] | [off]}
Keep (when on) or throw away (when off) line numbers in tress corresponding to source documents. When
kept, line numbers can be accessed using the function saxon:line-number(). Default: off.
-outval: {[recover] | [fatal]}
When validation is required, set whether validation errors are fatal (when "fatal" is passed) or if
they only trigger warnings (when "recover" is). Default: fatal.
-p: {[on] | [off]}
Enable or disable usage of the PTreeURIResolver. Saxon-SA only.
-r:classname
Specify a class to be used for resolving all URIs.
-repeat:N
Repeat the transformation N times. For benchmarking purposes.
-sa
Perform Schema-aware processing. Saxon-SA only.
-strip: {[all] | [none] | [ignorable]}
Specify whitespace stripping policy for source documents: strip all of them ("all"), strip none of
them ("none"), strip ignorable whitespace only ("ignorable"). Default: none.
-t
Display version, timing, and other debugging information on standard error.
-tree: {[tiny] | [linked]}
Select the implementation of the internal tree model: tiny tree model ("tiny") or linked tree model
("linked"). See the Saxon documentation for more information on the internal tree model. Default:
tiny.
-T [:classname]
Trace various aspect of the processing; an optional class name can be given to specify a user-chosen
tracer. The class must implement net.sf.saxon.trace.TraceListener. The default is a system supplied
tracer. This option implies -l.
-TJ
Enable tracing of external Java method invocation. See -ext.
-u
Force interpretation of source document names as URI. By default they are considered to be file
names, unless they start with "file:" or "http:".
-val: {[strict] | [lax]}
When validation is enabled, choose among "strict" or "lax" validation. Saxon-SA only.
-x:classname
Specify a class to be used as SAX parser for input documents. The class must implement either
org.xml.sax.Parser or org.xml.sax.XMLReader.
-xi
Apply XInclude processing to all input documents.
-xmlversion: {[1.0] | [1.1]}
Choose the XML version for processing input documents. "1.1" must be specified to process XML 1.1 and
Namespaces 1.1 constructs. Default: 1.0.
-?
Display a help message and exit.
Options specific to saxonb-xslt
-a
Use the "<?xml-stylesheet ... ?>" processing instruction from the source document to find the
stylesheet to be used. This option is not compatible with -xsl.
-c:filename
Use the compiled stylesheet stored in filename. This option is not compatible with -xsl.
-im:modename
Use modename as the initial mode used for the transformation. Qualified modes can be specified as
"{uri}localname".
-it:templatename
Use templatename as the initial named template for the transformation. When this option is used, -xsl
is optional.
-m:classname
Specify a class to be used as the receiver for messages generated by <xsl:message>. The class must
implement net.sf.saxon.event.Receiver.
-o:path
Specify the path to be used for saving generated output. Usually path points to a filename where the
main result document will be saved. If not specified such a document will be written to standard
output.
Additional output documents generated using the <xsl:result-document> command uses path as the
basename for the "href" attribute of the command. If -o is missing they will be saved relatively to
the current working directory.
When -s identifies a directory, also -o should identify one. All the output documents will then be
written under such a directory.
-or:classname
Specify a class to be used as the output resolver for the "href" attribute of <xsl:result-document>.
The class must implement net.sf.saxon.OutputURIResolver.
-s:path
Specify the input file or directory. This option is required unless -it has been given. If path
points to a filename, that file will be parsed as an XML document and its document node will be the
context item at the beginning of the transformation. The special filename "-" can be used to require
reading the input document from standard input.
If path points to a directory all files directly contained in it will be individually transformed. In
such a case -o is required. -u affects the intepretation of path.
-versmsg: {[on] | [off]}
Enable or disable the warning about using an XSLT 2.0 processor (which Saxon-B is) on stylesheets
which specify version="1.0" in their root element. Default: on.
-warnings: {[silent] | [recover] | [fatal]}
Set the policy for handling recoverable errors: "silent" for silent recovery, "recover" for recovery
with warning output on standard error, "fatal" for no recovery. Default: recover.
-xsl:filename
Specify the main XSLT stylesheet to be used for the transformation. This option is required unless -a
or -c are specified. The special filename "-" can be used to require reading the sylesheet from
standard input. -u affects the intepretation of filename.
-y:filename
Specify a class to be used as SAX parser for stylesheets. The class must implement either
org.xml.sax.Parser or org.xml.sax.XMLReader. See also -x.
SEE ALSO
saxonb-xquery (1), XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0 (W3C Recommendation).
This program is fully documented by the HTML documentation of Saxon, available in the libsaxon-java-doc
Debian package.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> for the Debian(TM) system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2008 Stefano Zacchiroli
February 2008 SAXONB-XSLT(1)