sabcmd(1)                                                            sabcmd(1)



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)
