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