xmlto Command Examples

Apply an XSL stylesheet to an XML document. More information: https://manned.org/xmlto.

• Convert a DocBook XML document to PDF format:

xmlto pdf {{document.xml}}

• Convert a DocBook XML document to HTML format and store the resulting files in a separate directory:

xmlto -o {{path/to/html_files}} html {{document.xml}}

• Convert a DocBook XML document to a single HTML file:

xmlto {{html-nochunks}} {{document.xml}}

• Specify a stylesheet to use while converting a DocBook XML document:

xmlto -x {{stylesheet.xsl}} {{output_format}} {{document.xml}}