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- <!ENTITY dhfirstname "<firstname>Scott</firstname>">
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- <!ENTITY dhsection "<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>">
- <!ENTITY dhemail "<email>bronson@rinspin.com</email>">
- <!ENTITY dhusername "Scott Bronson">
- <!ENTITY dhucpackage "<refentrytitle>XMLWF</refentrytitle>">
- <!ENTITY dhpackage "xmlwf">
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- <address>
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- &dhfirstname;
- &dhsurname;
- </author>
- <copyright>
- <year>2001</year>
- <holder>&dhusername;</holder>
- </copyright>
- &dhdate;
- </refentryinfo>
- <refmeta>
- &dhucpackage;
-
- &dhsection;
- </refmeta>
- <refnamediv>
- <refname>&dhpackage;</refname>
-
- <refpurpose>Determines if an XML document is well-formed</refpurpose>
- </refnamediv>
- <refsynopsisdiv>
- <cmdsynopsis>
- <command>&dhpackage;</command>
- <arg><option>-s</option></arg>
- <arg><option>-n</option></arg>
- <arg><option>-p</option></arg>
- <arg><option>-x</option></arg>
-
- <arg><option>-e <replaceable>encoding</replaceable></option></arg>
- <arg><option>-w</option></arg>
-
- <arg><option>-d <replaceable>output-dir</replaceable></option></arg>
- <arg><option>-c</option></arg>
- <arg><option>-m</option></arg>
-
- <arg><option>-r</option></arg>
- <arg><option>-t</option></arg>
-
- <arg><option>-v</option></arg>
-
- <arg>file ...</arg>
- </cmdsynopsis>
- </refsynopsisdiv>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
-
- <para>
- <command>&dhpackage;</command> uses the Expat library to
- determine if an XML document is well-formed. It is
- non-validating.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- If you do not specify any files on the command-line, and you
- have a recent version of <command>&dhpackage;</command>, the
- input file will be read from standard input.
- </para>
-
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>WELL-FORMED DOCUMENTS</title>
-
- <para>
- A well-formed document must adhere to the
- following rules:
- </para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para>
- The file begins with an XML declaration. For instance,
- <literal>&lt;?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?&gt;</literal>.
- <emphasis>NOTE:</emphasis>
- <command>&dhpackage;</command> does not currently
- check for a valid XML declaration.
- </para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>
- Every start tag is either empty (&lt;tag/&gt;)
- or has a corresponding end tag.
- </para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>
- 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.
- </para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>
- All elements nest properly.
- </para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>
- All attribute values are enclosed in quotes (either single
- or double).
- </para></listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- <para>
- If the document has a DTD, and it strictly complies with that
- DTD, then the document is also considered <emphasis>valid</emphasis>.
- <command>&dhpackage;</command> is a non-validating parser --
- it does not check the DTD. However, it does support
- external entities (see the <option>-x</option> option).
- </para>
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>OPTIONS</title>
-
-<para>
-When an option includes an argument, you may specify the argument either
-separately ("<option>-d</option> output") or concatenated with the
-option ("<option>-d</option>output"). <command>&dhpackage;</command>
-supports both.
-</para>
-
- <variablelist>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-c</option></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- If the input file is well-formed and <command>&dhpackage;</command>
- doesn't encounter any errors, the input file is simply copied to
- the output directory unchanged.
- This implies no namespaces (turns off <option>-n</option>) and
- requires <option>-d</option> to specify an output file.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-d output-dir</option></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Specifies a directory to contain transformed
- representations of the input files.
- By default, <option>-d</option> outputs a canonical representation
- (described below).
- You can select different output formats using <option>-c</option>
- and <option>-m</option>.
- </para>
- <para>
- 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, <command>&dhpackage;</command> will delete the
- input file before it generates the output file (just like running
- <literal>cat &lt; file &gt; file</literal> in most shells).
- </para>
- <para>
- 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 .
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-e encoding</option></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Specifies the character encoding for the document, overriding
- any document encoding declaration. <command>&dhpackage;</command>
- supports four built-in encodings:
- <literal>US-ASCII</literal>,
- <literal>UTF-8</literal>,
- <literal>UTF-16</literal>, and
- <literal>ISO-8859-1</literal>.
- Also see the <option>-w</option> option.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-m</option></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Outputs some strange sort of XML file that completely
- describes the the input file, including character postitions.
- Requires <option>-d</option> to specify an output file.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-n</option></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Turns on namespace processing. (describe namespaces)
- <option>-c</option> disables namespaces.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-p</option></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Tells xmlwf to process external DTDs and parameter
- entities.
- </para>
- <para>
- Normally <command>&dhpackage;</command> never parses parameter
- entities. <option>-p</option> tells it to always parse them.
- <option>-p</option> implies <option>-x</option>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-r</option></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Normally <command>&dhpackage;</command> memory-maps the XML file
- before parsing; this can result in faster parsing on many
- platforms.
- <option>-r</option> turns off memory-mapping and uses normal file
- IO calls instead.
- Of course, memory-mapping is automatically turned off
- when reading from standard input.
- </para>
- <para>
- Use of memory-mapping can cause some platforms to report
- substantially higher memory usage for
- <command>&dhpackage;</command>, but this appears to be a matter of
- the operating system reporting memory in a strange way; there is
- not a leak in <command>&dhpackage;</command>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-s</option></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- 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.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-t</option></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- 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.
- <option>-t</option> turns off most of the output options
- (<option>-d</option>, <option>-m</option>, <option>-c</option>,
- ...).
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-v</option></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Prints the version of the Expat library being used, including some
- information on the compile-time configuration of the library, and
- then exits.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-w</option></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Enables support for Windows code pages.
- Normally, <command>&dhpackage;</command> will throw an error if it
- runs across an encoding that it is not equipped to handle itself. With
- <option>-w</option>, &dhpackage; will try to use a Windows code
- page. See also <option>-e</option>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-x</option></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Turns on parsing external entities.
- </para>
-<para>
- 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.
- </para>
- <para>
- External entities are simply entities that obtain their
- data from outside the XML file currently being parsed.
- </para>
- <para>
- This is an example of an internal entity:
-<literallayout>
-&lt;!ENTITY vers '1.0.2'&gt;
-</literallayout>
- </para>
- <para>
- And here are some examples of external entities:
-
-<literallayout>
-&lt;!ENTITY header SYSTEM "header-&amp;vers;.xml"&gt; (parsed)
-&lt;!ENTITY logo SYSTEM "logo.png" PNG&gt; (unparsed)
-</literallayout>
-
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--</option></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- (Two hyphens.)
- Terminates the list of options. This is only needed if a filename
- starts with a hyphen. For example:
- </para>
-<literallayout>
-&dhpackage; -- -myfile.xml
-</literallayout>
- <para>
- will run <command>&dhpackage;</command> on the file
- <filename>-myfile.xml</filename>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
-
- <para>
- Older versions of <command>&dhpackage;</command> do not support
- reading from standard input.
- </para>
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>OUTPUT</title>
- <para>
- If an input file is not well-formed,
- <command>&dhpackage;</command> prints a single line describing
- the problem to standard output. If a file is well formed,
- <command>&dhpackage;</command> outputs nothing.
- Note that the result code is <emphasis>not</emphasis> set.
- </para>
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>BUGS</title>
- <para>
- According to the W3C standard, an XML file without a
- declaration at the beginning is not considered well-formed.
- However, <command>&dhpackage;</command> allows this to pass.
- </para>
- <para>
- <command>&dhpackage;</command> returns a 0 - noerr result,
- even if the file is not well-formed. There is no good way for
- a program to use <command>&dhpackage;</command> to quickly
- check a file -- it must parse <command>&dhpackage;</command>'s
- standard output.
- </para>
- <para>
- The errors should go to standard error, not standard output.
- </para>
- <para>
- There should be a way to get <option>-d</option> to send its
- output to standard output rather than forcing the user to send
- it to a file.
- </para>
- <para>
- I have no idea why anyone would want to use the
- <option>-d</option>, <option>-c</option>, and
- <option>-m</option> options. If someone could explain it to
- me, I'd like to add this information to this manpage.
- </para>
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>ALTERNATIVES</title>
- <para>
- Here are some XML validators on the web:
-
-<literallayout>
-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
-</literallayout>
-
- </para>
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>SEE ALSO</title>
- <para>
-
-<literallayout>
-The Expat home page: http://www.libexpat.org/
-The W3 XML specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml
-</literallayout>
-
- </para>
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>AUTHOR</title>
- <para>
- This manual page was written by &dhusername; &dhemail; for
- the &debian; system (but may be used by others). Permission is
- granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under
- the terms of the <acronym>GNU</acronym> Free Documentation
- License, Version 1.1.
- </para>
- </refsect1>
-</refentry>
-
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