NAME
sabcmd - a command line interface to Sablotron XSLT processor
SYNOPSIS
sabcmd [options] <stylesheet> [<input> [<output>]] [assignments]
sabcmd [options] -batch-xml <input> [<stylesheet> [<output>]]+
[assignments]
sabcmd [options] -batch-xsl <stylesheet> [<input> [<output>]]+
[assignments]
DESCRIPTION
sabcmd is a command line interface to Sablotron XSLT processor. You can
use is to transform XML files with XSLT stylesheets.
The only required parameter is a stylesheet; this is a URI of an XSLT
stylesheet to be used for the transformation process. If you omit an
input file, the standard input is used. In addition, you can specify an
output file. If no output file is given, the output is sent to the
standard output.
sabcmd can also run in a batch mode to process single input file with
multiple stylesheets (--batch-xml) or to apply a stylesheet to multiple
input files (--batch-xsl).
Assignments allow to pass parameters and named buffers to the
processor. The assignments have always the form of
name1=value1 name2=value2 ...
where name is either an ASCII string for named buffers or an ASCII
string with the leading '$' sign for parameters. (Note that you need to
use the right quotes to prevent the shell interpreter from performing
an expansion of variables).
OPTIONS
Option can be of two forms - short or long. If some options have
values, the values are separated with a whitespace for short options
and with a equal sign ('=') for long options.
-L mylog.log
is the same as
--log-file=mylog.log
COMMON OPTIONS
-x, --batch-xml
multiple stylesheets, single input file
-s, --batch-xsl
multiple input files, single stylesheet
-b, --base=NAME
set the hard base URI to NAME
--debug-options
display the information on debugging options
-?, --help
display this help message
-L, --log-file=NAME
set the log file, turns logging on
-m, --measure
measure the time of processing
-v, --version
display the version information
DEBUG OPTIONS
--debug
display results of the command line parse
-t, --times=COUNT
run sabcmd the specified number of times
-f, --flags
pass flags given to SablotSetOptions()
-F, --use-SPF
use SablotProcessFiles()
-S, --use-SPS
use SablotProcessStrings(). Give 2 args (stylesheet, input).
Precede each by @.
--use-SPS-on-files
use SablotProcessStrings() on the contents of the given files.
ENVIRONMENT
When the <xsl:sort> instruction is used without the 'lang' attribute,
common locale related environment variables apply..
BUGS
There are no known bugs related to sabcmd currently. Most of bugs you
can meet are related to Sablotron processor itself. In such a case,
please take a look at Sablotron's home website (www.gingerall.org) or
contact us at <sab-bugs@gingerall.cz>.
AUTHOR
Pavel Hlavnicka <pavel@gingerall.cz>
June 17, 2002 sabcmd(1)