xmllint - Unix, Linux Command


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NAME

xmllint - command line XML tool

SYNOPSIS

TagDescription
xmllint [--version --debug --shell --debugent --copy --recover --noent --noout --nonet --path "PATH(S)" --load-trace --htmlout --nowrap --valid --postvalid --dtdvalid URL --dtdvalidfpi FPI --timing --output FILE --repeat --insert --compress --html --xmlout --push --memory --maxmem NBBYTES --nowarning --noblanks --nocdata --format --encode ENCODING --dropdtd --nsclean --testIO --catalogs --nocatalogs --auto --xinclude --noxincludenode --loaddtd --dtdattr --stream --walker --pattern PATTERNVALUE --chkregister --relaxng SCHEMA --schema SCHEMA --c14n] {XML-FILE(S)... -}
xmllint --help

DESCRIPTION

The xmllint program parses one or more XML files, specified on the command line as XML-FILE (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.

xmllint is included in libxml(3).

More information can be found at

TagDescription
o libxml(3) web page  http://www.xmlsoft.org/
o W3C XSLT page  http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt

OPTIONS

xmllint accepts the following options (in alphabetical order):

TagDescription
--auto Generate a small document for testing purposes.
--catalogs
  Use the catalogs from SGML_CATALOG_FILES. Otherwise /etc/xml/catalog is used by default.
--chkregister
  Turn on node registration. Useful for developers testing libxml(3) node tracking code.
--compress
  Turn on gzip compression of output.
--copy Test the internal copy implementation.
--c14n Use the W3C XML Canonicalisation (C14N) to serialize the result of parsing to stdout. It keeps comments in the result.
--dtdvalid URL
  Use the DTD specified by an URL for validation.
--dtdvalidfpi FPI
  Use the DTD specified by a Public Identifier FPI for validation, note that this will require a Catalog exporting that Public Identifier to work.
--debug Parse a file and output an annotated tree of the in-memory version of the document.
--debugent
  Debug the entities defined in the document.
--dropdtd
  Remove DTD from output.
--dtdattr
  Fetch external DTD and populate the tree with inherited attributes.
--encode ENCODING
  Output in the given encoding.
--format
  Reformat and reindent the output. The XMLLINT_INDENT environment variable controls the indentation (default value is two spaces " ").
--help Print out a short usage summary for xmllint.
--html Use the HTML parser.
--htmlout
  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/viewed in a browser.
--insert
  Test for valid insertions.
--loaddtd
  Fetch external DTD.
--load-trace
  Display all the documents loaded during the processing to stderr.
--maxmem NNBYTES
  Test the parser memory support. NNBYTES 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.
--memory
  Parse from memory.
--noblanks
  Drop ignorable blank spaces.
--nocatalogs
  Do not use any catalogs.
--nocdata
  Substitute CDATA section by equivalent text nodes.
--noent Substitute entity values for entity references. By default, xmllint leaves entity references in place.
--nonet Do not use the Internet to fetch DTDs or entities.
--noout Suppress output. By default, xmllint outputs the result tree.
--nowarning
  Do not emit warnings from the parser and/or validator.
--nowrap
  Do not output HTML doc wrapper.
--noxincludenode
  Do XInclude processing but do not generate XInclude start and end nodes.
--nsclean
  Remove redundant namespace declarations.
--output FILE
  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.
--path "PATH(S)"
  Use the (space- or colon-separated) list of filesystem paths specified by PATHS to load DTDs or entities. Enclose space-separated lists by quotation marks.
--pattern PATTERNVALUE
  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.
--postvalid
  Validate after parsing is completed.
--push Use the push mode of the parser.
--recover
  Output any parsable portions of an invalid document.
--relaxng SCHEMA
  Use RelaxNG file named SCHEMA for validation.
--repeat
  Repeat 100 times, for timing or profiling.
--schema SCHEMA
  Use a W3C XML Schema file named SCHEMA for validation.
--shell Run a navigating shell. Details on available commands in shell mode are below (see the section called \(lqSHELL COMMANDS\(rq).
--stream
  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.
--testIO
  Test user input/output support.
--timing
  Output information about the time it takes xmllint to perform the various steps.
--valid 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 --dtdvalid option. By default, xmllint also checks to determine if the document is well-formed.
--version
  Display the version of libxml(3) used.
--walker
  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.
--xinclude
  Do XInclude processing.
--xmlout
  Used in conjunction with --html. 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.

SHELL COMMANDS

xmllint offers an interactive shell mode invoked with the --shell command. Available commands in shell mode include (in alphabetical order):

TagDescription
base Display XML base of the node.
bye Leave the shell.
cat NODE
  Display the given node or the current one.
cd PATH
  Change the current node to the given path (if unique) or root if no argument is given.
dir PATH
  Dumps information about the node (namespace, attributes, content).
du PATH
  Show the structure of the subtree under the given path or the current node.
exit Leave the shell.
help Show this help.
free Display memory usage.
load FILENAME
  Load a new document with the given filename.
ls PATH
  List contents of the given path or the current directory.
pwd Display the path to the current node.
quit Leave the shell.
save FILENAME
  Save the current document to the given filename or to the original name.
validate
  Check the document for errors.
write FILENAME
  Write the current node to the given filename.

ENVIRONMENT

TagDescription
SGML_CATALOG_FILES
  to be written ...
XML_CATALOG_FILES
  Catalog behavior can be changed by redirecting queries to the user’s own set of catalogs. This can be done by setting the XML_CATALOG_FILES environment variable to a list of catalogs. An empty one should deactivate loading the default /etc/xml/catalog default catalog.
XML_DEBUG_CATALOG
  Setting the environment variable XML_DEBUG_CATALOG using the export command outputs debugging information related to catalog operations.
XMLLINT_INDENT
  to be written ...

DIAGNOSTICS

On the completion of execution, xmllint returns the following error codes:

TagDescription
0 No error
1 Unclassified
2 Error in DTD
3 Validation error
4 Validation error
5 Error in schema compilation
6 Error writing output
7 Error in pattern (generated when --pattern option is used)
8 Error in Reader registration (generated when --chkregister option is used)
9 Out of memory error

SEE ALSO

libxml(3)

AUTHOR

John Fleck <jfleck@inkstain.net>, Ziying Sherwin <sherwin@nlm.nih.gov>, Heiko Rupp <hwr@pilhuhn.de>.
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