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docmake - a tool to render DocBook/XML into various output formats.

version 0.1101

# To render input.xml file into XHTML
docmake --ns -o output.xhtml xhtml input.xml
# Same with more verbose output
docmake -v ---ns o output.xhtml xhtml input.xml
# Avoid trailing slash when emitting to a dummy file in a dir
docmake ---ns -trailing-slash=0 -o output/index.xhtml xhtml5 input.xml
# Render into pdf
docmake -v --ns -o output.pdf pdf input.xml
# Same while not rebuilding if not necessary
docmake -v --ns --make -o output.pdf pdf input.xml
# Render using a Stylesheet
docmake -v --ns -o output.xhtml -x my-stylesheets.xsl xhtml input.xml

docmake is a tool to render DocBook/XML into its resultant formats using XSLT: XHTML, XSL-FO, PDF, RTF, etc. For a brief help type "docmake help" .

It aims to be a replacement for xmlto - http://cyberelk.net/tim/software/xmlto/ . As opposed to xmlto, it is written in Perl, which is easier to get right than xmlto's Bash, and xmlto hasn't been updated for a long time when I started work on docmake.

The basic invocation of docmake is:

docmake [flags] MODE input.xml

The available modes are:

  • help

    To get help.

  • fo

    Convert to XSL-FO.

  • manpages

    Convert to Unix man pages.

  • rtf

    Convert to Word/RTF.

  • xhtml

    Convert to XHTML.

  • xhtml-1_1

    Convert to XHTML-1.1.

  • xhtml5

    Convert to XHTML5.

  • pdf

    Convert to PDF.

The available flags are:

  • -h ; --help

    Display some rudimentary help.

  • --man

    Display the man page.

  • -v ; --verbose

    Verbose - output the commands' invocation as they are executed.

  • --ns

    Use the DocBook xsl-ns ( namespaces ) URLs.

    Verbose - output the commands' invocation as they are executed.

  • -o OUTPUT_PATH

    Put the result in OUTPUT_PATH .

  • -x STYLESHEET ; --stylesheet STYLESHEET

    Use the XSLT stylesheet STYLESHEET for performing XSLT transformations.

  • --basepath PATH

    This is the base path for the DocBook stylesheets. The appropriate XSLT mode will be appended to it. This is for example, useful for building DocBook 5 documents by specifying the path to their stylesheets.

  • --stringparam KEY=VALUE

    Specify the string parameter of KEY as VALUE. Note that as opposed to xsltproc, KEY and VALUE cannot be specified as different command line arguments, but rather should be on the same one, delimited by an equal sign (""="").

  • --trailing-slash=0

    Disable adding a trailing slash when building into an HTML file, to emit an unneeded file there. Note the "=0" argument.

  • --make

    Behave like make in building files only if their dependencies are newer.

There are some examples for sample invocation in the Synopsis.

Copyright 2008 Shlomi Fish, all rights reserved.

This program is released under the following license: MIT/X11 License. ( http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php ).

Shlomi Fish , http://www.shlomifish.org/ .

The following websites have more information about this module, and may be of help to you. As always, in addition to those websites please use your favorite search engine to discover more resources.

Please report any bugs or feature requests by email to "bug-app-xml-docbook-builder at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=App-XML-DocBook-Builder. You will be automatically notified of any progress on the request by the system.

The code is open to the world, and available for you to hack on. Please feel free to browse it and play with it, or whatever. If you want to contribute patches, please send me a diff or prod me to pull from your repository :)

https://github.com/shlomif/docmake

git clone git://github.com/shlomif/docmake.git

Shlomi Fish <shlomif@cpan.org>

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://github.com/shlomif/docmake/issues

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

This software is Copyright (c) 2024 by Shlomi Fish.

This is free software, licensed under:

The MIT (X11) License
2026-03-07 perl v5.42.0