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- .TH XMLWF 1 "March 11, 2016" "" ""
- .SH NAME
- xmlwf \- Determines if an XML document is well-formed
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- 'nh
- .fi
- .ad l
- \fBxmlwf\fR \kx
- .if (\nx>(\n(.l/2)) .nr x (\n(.l/5)
- 'in \n(.iu+\nxu
- [\fB-s\fR] [\fB-n\fR] [\fB-p\fR] [\fB-x\fR] [\fB-e \fIencoding\fB\fR] [\fB-w\fR] [\fB-d \fIoutput-dir\fB\fR] [\fB-c\fR] [\fB-m\fR] [\fB-r\fR] [\fB-t\fR] [\fB-v\fR] [file ...]
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- .ad b
- 'hy
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- \fBxmlwf\fR uses the Expat library to
- determine if an XML document is well-formed. It is
- non-validating.
- .PP
- If you do not specify any files on the command-line, and you
- have a recent version of \fBxmlwf\fR, the
- input file will be read from standard input.
- .SH "WELL-FORMED DOCUMENTS"
- A well-formed document must adhere to the
- following rules:
- .TP 0.2i
- \(bu
- The file begins with an XML declaration. For instance,
- \*(T<<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>\*(T>.
- \fINOTE:\fR
- \fBxmlwf\fR does not currently
- check for a valid XML declaration.
- .TP 0.2i
- \(bu
- Every start tag is either empty (<tag/>)
- or has a corresponding end tag.
- .TP 0.2i
- \(bu
- There is exactly one root element. This element must contain
- all other elements in the document. Only comments, white
- space, and processing instructions may come after the close
- of the root element.
- .TP 0.2i
- \(bu
- All elements nest properly.
- .TP 0.2i
- \(bu
- All attribute values are enclosed in quotes (either single
- or double).
- .PP
- If the document has a DTD, and it strictly complies with that
- DTD, then the document is also considered \fIvalid\fR.
- \fBxmlwf\fR is a non-validating parser --
- it does not check the DTD. However, it does support
- external entities (see the \*(T<\fB\-x\fR\*(T> option).
- .SH OPTIONS
- When an option includes an argument, you may specify the argument either
- separately ("\*(T<\fB\-d\fR\*(T> output") or concatenated with the
- option ("\*(T<\fB\-d\fR\*(T>output"). \fBxmlwf\fR
- supports both.
- .TP
- \*(T<\fB\-c\fR\*(T>
- If the input file is well-formed and \fBxmlwf\fR
- doesn't encounter any errors, the input file is simply copied to
- the output directory unchanged.
- This implies no namespaces (turns off \*(T<\fB\-n\fR\*(T>) and
- requires \*(T<\fB\-d\fR\*(T> to specify an output file.
- .TP
- \*(T<\fB\-d output\-dir\fR\*(T>
- Specifies a directory to contain transformed
- representations of the input files.
- By default, \*(T<\fB\-d\fR\*(T> outputs a canonical representation
- (described below).
- You can select different output formats using \*(T<\fB\-c\fR\*(T>
- and \*(T<\fB\-m\fR\*(T>.
- The output filenames will
- be exactly the same as the input filenames or "STDIN" if the input is
- coming from standard input. Therefore, you must be careful that the
- output file does not go into the same directory as the input
- file. Otherwise, \fBxmlwf\fR will delete the
- input file before it generates the output file (just like running
- \*(T<cat < file > file\*(T> in most shells).
- Two structurally equivalent XML documents have a byte-for-byte
- identical canonical XML representation.
- Note that ignorable white space is considered significant and
- is treated equivalently to data.
- More on canonical XML can be found at
- http://www.jclark.com/xml/canonxml.html .
- .TP
- \*(T<\fB\-e encoding\fR\*(T>
- Specifies the character encoding for the document, overriding
- any document encoding declaration. \fBxmlwf\fR
- supports four built-in encodings:
- \*(T<US\-ASCII\*(T>,
- \*(T<UTF\-8\*(T>,
- \*(T<UTF\-16\*(T>, and
- \*(T<ISO\-8859\-1\*(T>.
- Also see the \*(T<\fB\-w\fR\*(T> option.
- .TP
- \*(T<\fB\-m\fR\*(T>
- Outputs some strange sort of XML file that completely
- describes the input file, including character positions.
- Requires \*(T<\fB\-d\fR\*(T> to specify an output file.
- .TP
- \*(T<\fB\-n\fR\*(T>
- Turns on namespace processing. (describe namespaces)
- \*(T<\fB\-c\fR\*(T> disables namespaces.
- .TP
- \*(T<\fB\-p\fR\*(T>
- Tells xmlwf to process external DTDs and parameter
- entities.
- Normally \fBxmlwf\fR never parses parameter
- entities. \*(T<\fB\-p\fR\*(T> tells it to always parse them.
- \*(T<\fB\-p\fR\*(T> implies \*(T<\fB\-x\fR\*(T>.
- .TP
- \*(T<\fB\-r\fR\*(T>
- Normally \fBxmlwf\fR memory-maps the XML file
- before parsing; this can result in faster parsing on many
- platforms.
- \*(T<\fB\-r\fR\*(T> turns off memory-mapping and uses normal file
- IO calls instead.
- Of course, memory-mapping is automatically turned off
- when reading from standard input.
- Use of memory-mapping can cause some platforms to report
- substantially higher memory usage for
- \fBxmlwf\fR, but this appears to be a matter of
- the operating system reporting memory in a strange way; there is
- not a leak in \fBxmlwf\fR.
- .TP
- \*(T<\fB\-s\fR\*(T>
- Prints an error if the document is not standalone.
- A document is standalone if it has no external subset and no
- references to parameter entities.
- .TP
- \*(T<\fB\-t\fR\*(T>
- Turns on timings. This tells Expat to parse the entire file,
- but not perform any processing.
- This gives a fairly accurate idea of the raw speed of Expat itself
- without client overhead.
- \*(T<\fB\-t\fR\*(T> turns off most of the output options
- (\*(T<\fB\-d\fR\*(T>, \*(T<\fB\-m\fR\*(T>, \*(T<\fB\-c\fR\*(T>, ...).
- .TP
- \*(T<\fB\-v\fR\*(T>
- Prints the version of the Expat library being used, including some
- information on the compile-time configuration of the library, and
- then exits.
- .TP
- \*(T<\fB\-w\fR\*(T>
- Enables support for Windows code pages.
- Normally, \fBxmlwf\fR will throw an error if it
- runs across an encoding that it is not equipped to handle itself. With
- \*(T<\fB\-w\fR\*(T>, xmlwf will try to use a Windows code
- page. See also \*(T<\fB\-e\fR\*(T>.
- .TP
- \*(T<\fB\-x\fR\*(T>
- Turns on parsing external entities.
- Non-validating parsers are not required to resolve external
- entities, or even expand entities at all.
- Expat always expands internal entities (?),
- but external entity parsing must be enabled explicitly.
- External entities are simply entities that obtain their
- data from outside the XML file currently being parsed.
- This is an example of an internal entity:
- .nf
- <!ENTITY vers '1.0.2'>
- .fi
- And here are some examples of external entities:
- .nf
- <!ENTITY header SYSTEM "header\-&vers;.xml"> (parsed)
- <!ENTITY logo SYSTEM "logo.png" PNG> (unparsed)
- .fi
- .TP
- \*(T<\fB\-\-\fR\*(T>
- (Two hyphens.)
- Terminates the list of options. This is only needed if a filename
- starts with a hyphen. For example:
- .nf
- xmlwf \-\- \-myfile.xml
- .fi
- will run \fBxmlwf\fR on the file
- \*(T<\fI\-myfile.xml\fR\*(T>.
- .PP
- Older versions of \fBxmlwf\fR do not support
- reading from standard input.
- .SH OUTPUT
- If an input file is not well-formed,
- \fBxmlwf\fR prints a single line describing
- the problem to standard output. If a file is well formed,
- \fBxmlwf\fR outputs nothing.
- Note that the result code is \fInot\fR set.
- .SH BUGS
- \fBxmlwf\fR returns a 0 - noerr result,
- even if the file is not well-formed. There is no good way for
- a program to use \fBxmlwf\fR to quickly
- check a file -- it must parse \fBxmlwf\fR's
- standard output.
- .PP
- The errors should go to standard error, not standard output.
- .PP
- There should be a way to get \*(T<\fB\-d\fR\*(T> to send its
- output to standard output rather than forcing the user to send
- it to a file.
- .PP
- I have no idea why anyone would want to use the
- \*(T<\fB\-d\fR\*(T>, \*(T<\fB\-c\fR\*(T>, and
- \*(T<\fB\-m\fR\*(T> options. If someone could explain it to
- me, I'd like to add this information to this manpage.
- .SH ALTERNATIVES
- Here are some XML validators on the web:
- .nf
- http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/~richard/xml\-check.html
- http://www.stg.brown.edu/service/xmlvalid/
- http://www.scripting.com/frontier5/xml/code/xmlValidator.html
- http://www.xml.com/pub/a/tools/ruwf/check.html
- .fi
- .SH "SEE ALSO"
- .nf
- The Expat home page: http://www.libexpat.org/
- The W3 XML specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC\-xml
- .fi
- .SH AUTHOR
- This manual page was written by Scott Bronson <\*(T<bronson@rinspin.com\*(T>> for
- the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Permission is
- granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under
- the terms of the GNU Free Documentation
- License, Version 1.1.
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