NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

    # To render input.xml file into XHTML
    docmake -o output.xhtml xhtml input.xml

    # Same with more verbose output
    docmake -v -o output.xhtml xhtml input.xml

    # Render into pdf
    docmake -v -o output.pdf pdf input.xml

    # Same while not rebuilding if not necessary
    docmake -v --make -o output.pdf pdf input.xml

    # Render using a Stylesheet
    docmake -v -o output.xhtml -x my-stylesheets.xsl xhtml input.xml

DESCRIPTION

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.

USAGE

The basic invocation of docmake is:

    docmake [flags] MODE input.xml

MODES

The available modes are:

• help

  To get help.

• fo

  Convert to XSL-FO.

• rtf

  Convert to Word/RTF.

• xhtml

  Convert to XHTML.

• pdf

  Convert to PDF.

FLAGS

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.

• -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 ("=").

• --make

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

EXAMPLES

There are some examples for sample invocation in the Synopsis.

SUPPORT

You can look for information at:

• Search CPAN

  http://search.cpan.org/dist/App-XML-DocBook-Docmake/

• AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

  http://annocpan.org/dist/App::XML::DocBook::Docmake

• CPAN Ratings

  http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/App::XML::DocBook::Docmake

• RT: CPAN's request tracker

  http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=App::XML::DocBook::Docmake

SEE ALSO

• DocBook on the Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocBook

• DocBook/XSL - The Complete Guide - http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/

• The DocBook Homepage - http://www.docbook.org/

• xmlto - http://cyberelk.net/tim/software/xmlto/

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

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 ).

AUTHOR

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