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Don't modify this, modify the source. .de Sh \" Subsection .br .if t .Sp .ne 5 .PP \fB\\$1\fR .PP .. .de Sp \" Vertical space (when we can't use .PP) .if t .sp .5v .if n .sp .. .de Ip \" List item .br .ie \\n(.$>=3 .ne \\$3 .el .ne 3 .IP "\\$1" \\$2 .. .TH "XMLLINT" 1 "" "" "xmllint Manual" .SH NAME xmllint \- command line XML tool .SH "SYNOPSIS" .ad l .hy 0 .HP 8 \fBxmllint\fR [\fB\-\-version\fR | \fB\-\-debug\fR | \fB\-\-shell\fR | \fB\-\-debugent\fR | \fB\-\-copy\fR | \fB\-\-recover\fR | \fB\-\-noent\fR | \fB\-\-noout\fR | \fB\-\-nonet\fR | \fB\-\-path\ \fIpaths\fR\fR | \fB\-\-load\-trace\fR | \fB\-\-htmlout\fR | \fB\-\-nowrap\fR | \fB\-\-valid\fR | \fB\-\-postvalid\fR | \fB\-\-dtdvalid\ \fIURL\fR\fR | \fB\-\-dtdvalidfpi\ \fIFPI\fR\fR | \fB\-\-timing\fR | \fB\-\-output\ \fIfile\fR\fR | \fB\-\-repeat\fR | \fB\-\-insert\fR | \fB\-\-compress\fR | \fB\-\-html\fR | \fB\-\-xmlout\fR | \fB\-\-push\fR | \fB\-\-memory\fR | \fB\-\-maxmem\ \fInbbytes\fR\fR | \fB\-\-nowarning\fR | \fB\-\-noblanks\fR | \fB\-\-nocdata\fR | \fB\-\-format\fR | \fB\-\-encode\ \fIencoding\fR\fR | \fB\-\-dropdtd\fR | \fB\-\-nsclean\fR | \fB\-\-testIO\fR | \fB\-\-catalogs\fR | \fB\-\-nocatalogs\fR | \fB\-\-auto\fR | \fB\-\-xinclude\fR | \fB\-\-noxincludenode\fR | \fB\-\-loaddtd\fR | \fB\-\-dtdattr\fR | \fB\-\-stream\fR | \fB\-\-walker\fR | \fB\-\-pattern\ \fIpatternvalue\fR\fR | \fB\-\-chkregister\fR | \fB\-\-relaxng\fR | \fB\-\-schema\fR | \fB\-\-c14n\fR] [\fB\fIxmlfile\fR\fR] .ad .hy .SH "INTRODUCTION" .PP The xmllint program parses one or more XML files, specified on the command line as \fIxmlfile\fR (or the standard input if the filename provided is \- )\&. It prints various types of output, depending upon the options selected\&. It is useful for detecting errors both in XML code and in the XML parser itself\&. .PP It is included in libxml2\&. .SH "OPTIONS" .TP \fB\-\-version\fR Display the version of libxml2 used\&. .TP \fB\-\-debug\fR Parse a file and output an annotated tree of the in\-memory version of the document\&. .TP \fB\-\-shell\fR Run a navigating shell\&. Details on available commands in shell mode are below\&. .TP \fB\-\-debugent\fR Debug the entities defined in the document\&. .TP \fB\-\-copy\fR Test the internal copy implementation\&. .TP \fB\-\-recover\fR Output any parsable portions of an invalid document\&. .TP \fB\-\-noent\fR Substitute entity values for entity references\&. By default, xmllint leaves entity references in place\&. .TP \fB\-\-nocdata\fR Substitute CDATA section by equivalent text nodes\&. .TP \fB\-\-nsclean\fR Remove redundant namespace declarations\&. .TP \fB\-\-noout\fR Suppress output\&. By default, xmllint outputs the result tree\&. .TP \fB\-\-nonet\fR Do not use the Internet to fetch DTD's or entities\&. .TP \fB\-\-nonet\fR Do not use the Internet to fetch DTD's or entities\&. .TP \fB\-\-path\fR \fIpaths\fR Use the list (separated by space or column) of filesystem path specified by \fIpaths\fR to load DTDs or entities \&. .TP \fB\-\-load\-trace\fR Display to stderr all the documents loaded during the processing\&. .TP \fB\-\-htmlout\fR Output results as an HTML file\&. This causes xmllint to output the necessary HTML tags surrounding the result tree output so the results can be displayed in a browser\&. .TP \fB\-\-nowrap \fR Do not output HTML doc wrapper\&. .TP \fB\-\-valid \fR Determine if the document is a valid instance of the included Document Type Definition (DTD)\&. A DTD to be validated against also can be specified at the command line using the \fB\-\-dtdvalid\fR option\&. By default, xmllint also checks to determine if the document is well\-formed\&. .TP \fB\-\-postvalid\fR Validate after parsing is completed\&. .TP \fB\-\-dtdvalid\fR \fIURL\fR Use the DTD specified by \fIURL\fR for validation\&. .TP \fB\-\-dtdvalidfpi\fR \fIFPI\fR Use the DTD specified by the Public Identifier \fIFPI\fR for validation, note that this will require a Catalog exporting that Public Identifier to work\&. .TP \fB\-\-timing\fR Output information about the time it takes xmllint to perform the various steps\&. .TP \fB\-\-output\fR \fIfile\fR Define a file path where xmllint will save the result of parsing\&. Usually the programs build a tree and save it on stdout, with this option the result XML instance will be saved onto a file\&. .TP \fB\-\-repeat\fR Repeat 100 times, for timing or profiling\&. .TP \fB\-\-insert\fR Test for valid insertions\&. .TP \fB\-\-compress\fR Turn on gzip compression of output\&. .TP \fB\-\-html\fR Use the HTML parser\&. .TP \fB\-\-xmlout\fR Used in conjusntion with \fB\-\-html\fR\&. Usually when HTML is parsed the document is saved with the HTML serializer, but with this option the resulting document is saved with the XML serializer\&. This is primarily used to generate XHTML from HTML input\&. .TP \fB\-\-push\fR Use the push mode of the parser\&. .TP \fB\-\-memory\fR Parse from memory\&. .TP \fB\-\-maxmem\fR \fInnbytes\fR Test the parser memory support\&. \fInnbytes\fR is the maximum number of bytes the library is allowed to allocate\&. This can also be used to make sure batch processing of XML files will not exhaust the virtual memory of the server running them\&. .TP \fB\-\-nowarning\fR Do not emit warnings from the parser and/or validator\&. .TP \fB\-\-noblanks\fR Drop ignorable blank spaces\&. .TP \fB\-\-format\fR Reformat and reindent the output\&. The $XMLLINT_INDENT environment variable controls the indentation (default value is two spaces " ")\&. .TP \fB\-\-testIO\fR Test user input/output support\&. .TP \fB\-\-encode\fR \fIencoding\fR Output in the given encoding\&. .TP \fB\-\-catalogs\fR Use the catalogs from $SGML_CATALOG_FILES\&. Otherwise /etc/xml/catalog is used by default\&. .TP \fB\-\-nocatalogs\fR Do not use any catalogs\&. .TP \fB\-\-auto\fR Generate a small document for testing purposes\&. .TP \fB\-\-xinclude\fR Do XInclude processing\&. .TP \fB\-\-noxincludenode\fR Do XInclude processing but do not generate XInclude start and end nodes\&. .TP \fB\-\-loaddtd\fR Fetch external DTD\&. .TP \fB\-\-dtdattr\fR Fetch external DTD and populate the tree with inherited attributes\&. .TP \fB\-\-dropdtd\fR Remove DTD from output\&. .TP \fB\-\-stream\fR Use streaming API \- useful when used in combination with \-\-relaxng or \-\-valid options for validation of files that are too large to be held in memory\&. .TP \fB\-\-walker\fR Test the walker module, which is a reader interface but for a document tree, instead of using the reader API on an unparsed document it works on a existing in\-memory tree\&. Used in debugging\&. .TP \fB\-\-chkregister\fR Turn on node registration\&. Useful for developers testing libxml2 node tracking code\&. .TP \fB\-\-pattern\fR \fIpatternvalue\fR Used to exercise the pattern recognition engine, which can be used with the reader interface to the parser\&. It allows to select some nodes in the document based on an XPath (subset) expression\&. Used for debugging\&. .TP \fB\-\-relaxng\fR \fIschema\fR Use RelaxNG file named \fIschema\fR for validation\&. .TP \fB\-\-schema\fR \fIschema\fR Use a W3C XML Schema file named \fIschema\fR for validation\&. .TP \fB\-\-c14n\fR Use the W3C XML Canonicalisation (C14N) to serialize the result of parsing to stdout\&. It keeps comments in the result\&. .SH "SHELL" .PP xmllint offers an interactive shell mode invoked with the \fB\-\-shell\fR command\&. Available commands in shell mode include: .TP \fBbase\fR display XML base of the node .TP \fBbye\fR leave shell .TP \fBcat \fInode\fR\fR Display node if given or current node\&. .TP \fBcd \fIpath\fR\fR Change the current node to \fIpath\fR (if given and unique) or root if no argument given\&. .TP \fBdir \fIpath\fR\fR Dumps information about the node (namespace, attributes, content)\&. .TP \fBdu \fIpath\fR\fR Show the structure of the subtree under path or the current node\&. .TP \fBexit\fR Leave the shell\&. .TP \fBhelp\fR Show this help\&. .TP \fBfree\fR Display memory usage\&. .TP \fBload \fIname\fR\fR Load a new document with the given name\&. .TP \fBls \fIpath\fR\fR List contents of \fIpath\fR (if given) or the current directory\&. .TP \fBpwd\fR Display the path to the current node\&. .TP \fBquit\fR Leave the shell\&. .TP \fBsave \fIname\fR\fR Saves the current document to \fIname\fR if given or to the original name\&. .TP \fBvalidate\fR Check the document for error\&. .TP \fBwrite \fIname\fR\fR Write the current node to the given filename\&. .SH "CATALOGS" .PP Catalog behavior can be changed by redirecting queries to the user's own set of catalogs\&. This can be done by setting the \fIXML_CATALOG_FILES\fR environment variable to a list of catalogs\&. An empty one should deactivate loading the default \fI/etc/xml/catalog\fR default catalog\&. .SH "DEBUGGING CATALOGS" .PP Setting the environment variable \fIXML_DEBUG_CATALOG\fR using the command \fB"export XML_DEBUG_CATALOG="\fR outputs debugging information related to catalog operations\&. .SH "ERROR RETURN CODES" .PP On the completion of execution, Xmllint returns the following error codes: .TP 0 No error .TP 1 Unclassified .TP 2 Error in DTD .TP 3 Validation error .TP 4 Validation error .TP 5 Error in schema compilation .TP 6 Error writing output .TP 7 Error in pattern (generated when [\-\-pattern] option is used) .TP 8 Error in Reader registration (generated when [\-\-chkregister] option is used) .TP 9 Out of memory error .SH AUTHORS John Fleck, Ziying Sherwin, Heiko Rupp.