Unix in a Nutshell, 4th Edition

Name

xmlto

Synopsis

    xmlto [options]format file

Convert a DocBook/XML file into a formatted file. The format is typically something like pdf or html. The file should be a text file containing DocBook/XML markup. xmlto applies a stylesheet to convert the document to the appropriate format, possibly formatting it in the process.

Available Formats

dvi	TeX DVI file.
fo	XSL-FO formatting objects.
html	Hypertext Markup Language.
html-nochunks	HTML, in one large file.
htmlhelp	HTML Help files.
javahelp	Java Help files.
man	Unix-style manpages.
pdf	Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
ps	PostScript files.
txt	Plain text files.
xhtml	XHTML (XML-derived HTML) files.
xhtml-nochunks	XHTML, in one large file.

Options

--extensions

Enable stylesheet extensions for the toolchain in use.

-m XSL-file

Use the XSL in XSL-file to modify the stylesheet.

-o dir

Place output files in the directory dir instead of in the current directory.

-p options

Pass the options on to the post-processing program. Repeat -p to pass options on to the second stage post-processor. (This currently applies only to the ps format, which uses TeX to produce DVI and dvips to produce PostScript.)

--searchpath path

Add the directories in the colon-separated path to the search path for files to include.

--skip-validation

Skip the normal validation check.

-x stylesheet

Use stylesheet instead of picking one automatically.

Examples

Produce a PDF file from DocBook/XML input:

 xmlto pdf ...