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<refentry>
<refentryinfo>
<title>xmllint Manual</title>
<productname>xmllint</productname>
<copyright>
<year>2001</year>
<year>2004</year>
</copyright>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>John</firstname>
<surname>Fleck</surname>
<contrib></contrib>
<affiliation>
<address>
<email>jfleck@inkstain.net</email>
</address>
</affiliation>
</author>
<author>
<firstname>Ziying</firstname>
<surname>Sherwin</surname>
<contrib></contrib>
<affiliation>
<address>
<email>sherwin@nlm.nih.gov</email>
</address>
</affiliation>
</author>
<author>
<firstname>Heiko</firstname>
<surname>Rupp</surname>
<contrib></contrib>
<affiliation>
<address>
<email>hwr@pilhuhn.de</email>
</address>
</affiliation>
</author>
</authorgroup>
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<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>xmllint</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>xmllint</refname>
<refpurpose>command line <acronym>XML</acronym> tool</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>xmllint</command>
<group choice="opt">
<arg choice="plain"><option>--version</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--debug</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--quiet</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--shell</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--xpath "<replaceable class="option">XPath_expression</replaceable>"</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--copy</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--recover</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--huge</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--nocompact</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--nodefdtd</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--nodict</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--noenc</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--noent</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--nofixup-base-uris</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--noout</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--nonet</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--path "<replaceable class="option">PATH(S)</replaceable>"</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--load-trace</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--valid</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--postvalid</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--dtdvalid <replaceable class="option">URL</replaceable></option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--dtdvalidfpi <replaceable class="option">FPI</replaceable></option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--timing</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--output <replaceable class="option">FILE</replaceable></option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--repeat</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--insert</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--strict-namespace</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--compress</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--html</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--xmlout</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--push</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--memory</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--max-ampl <replaceable class="option">INTEGER</replaceable></option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--maxmem <replaceable class="option">NBBYTES</replaceable></option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--nowarning</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--noblanks</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--nocdata</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--format</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--pretty <replaceable class="option">INTEGER</replaceable></option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--encode <replaceable class="option">ENCODING</replaceable></option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--dropdtd</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--nsclean</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--catalogs</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--nocatalogs</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--auto</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--xinclude</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--noxincludenode</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--loaddtd</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--dtdattr</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--stream</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--walker</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--pattern <replaceable class="option">PATTERNVALUE</replaceable></option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--relaxng <replaceable class="option">SCHEMA</replaceable></option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--schema <replaceable class="option">SCHEMA</replaceable></option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--schematron <replaceable class="option">SCHEMA</replaceable></option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--c14n</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--c14n11</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--exc-c14n</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--pedantic</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--sax</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--sax1</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--oldxml10</option></arg>
</group>
<group choice="req">
<arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>XML-FILE(S)</replaceable></arg>
<arg choice="plain" rep="norepeat">-</arg>
</group>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1 id="description">
<title>DESCRIPTION</title>
<para>
The &xmllint; program parses one or more <acronym>XML</acronym> files,
specified on the command line as <replaceable>XML-FILE</replaceable>
(or the standard input if the filename provided
is <emphasis role="bold">-</emphasis> ). It prints various types of
output, depending upon the options selected. It is useful for detecting
errors both in <acronym>XML</acronym> code and in
the <acronym>XML</acronym> parser itself.
</para>
<para>&xmllint; is part of the libxml2 library.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="validation-options">
<title>VALIDATION OPTIONS</title>
<para>
Options enabling validation.
</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--dtdvalid <replaceable class="option">URL</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Use the <acronym>DTD</acronym> specified by
an <replaceable>URL</replaceable> for validation.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--dtdvalidfpi <replaceable class="option">FPI</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Use the <acronym>DTD</acronym> specified by a Formal Public
Identifier <replaceable>FPI</replaceable> for validation, note that this
will require a catalog exporting that Formal Public Identifier to work.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--relaxng <replaceable class="option">SCHEMA</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Use RelaxNG file named <replaceable class="option">SCHEMA</replaceable>
for validation.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--schema <replaceable>SCHEMA</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Use a W3C <acronym>XML</acronym> Schema file
named <replaceable>SCHEMA</replaceable> for validation.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--schematron <replaceable>SCHEMA</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Use a Schematron file
named <replaceable>SCHEMA</replaceable> for validation.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--valid</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Determine if the document is a valid instance of the included
Document Type Definition (<acronym>DTD</acronym>).
A <acronym>DTD</acronym> to be validated against also can be
specified at the command line using the <option>--dtdvalid</option>
option. By default, &xmllint; also checks to determine if the
document is well-formed.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--strict-namespace</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Return an error if the document is well-formed, but has namespace
errors. This enforces namespace-well-formedness.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="parser-options">
<title>PARSER OPTIONS</title>
<para>
The following options set the respective parser options.
</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--dtdattr</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Fetch external <acronym>DTD</acronym> and populate the tree with
inherited attributes. Implies <option>--loaddtd</option>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--huge</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Ignore some hardcoded parser limits.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--loaddtd</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Fetch an external <acronym>DTD</acronym> and external
parameter entities.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--max-ampl <replaceable class="option">INTEGER</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Set the maximum amplification factor which protects against
exponential entity expansion ("billion laughs"). The default value
is 5. Documents making heavy use of entity expansion may require a
higher value.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--noblanks</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Drop "ignorable" blank spaces. This option is unreliable
and shouldn't be used.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--nocatalogs</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Do not use any catalogs.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--nocdata</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Substitute CDATA section by equivalent text nodes.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--nodefdtd</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Do not set default HTML doctype (parser option
HTML_PARSE_NODEFDTD).
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--noenc</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Ignore encoding declaration (parser option
XML_PARSE_IGNORE_ENC).
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--noent</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Substitute entity values for entity references. By default, &xmllint;
leaves entity references in place. This enables loading of
external DTDs and entities.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--nofixup-base-uris</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Don't fix xml:base URIs when processing XIncludes
(parser option XML_PARSE_NOBASEFIX).
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--nonet</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Do not use the Internet to fetch <acronym>DTD</acronym>s or entities. Has no effect with libxml2 2.15 or later.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--nowarning</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Do not emit warnings from the parser and/or validator.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--nsclean</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Remove redundant namespace declarations.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--oldxml10</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Use deprecated parsing rules before XML 1.0,
5th edition.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--pedantic</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Enable additional warnings.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--recover</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Output any parsable portions of an invalid document.
Exact behavior is unspecified. Use of this option
is discouraged.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--xinclude</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Do XInclude processing.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="miscellaneous-options">
<title>MISCELLANEOUS OPTIONS</title>
<para>
Options that don't fall in another category.
</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--catalogs</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Use the <acronym>SGML</acronym> catalog(s) from <envar>SGML_CATALOG_FILES</envar>.
<acronym>XML</acronym> catalogs are loaded by default.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--dropdtd</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Remove <acronym>DTD</acronym> after parsing.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--html</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Use the <acronym>HTML</acronym> parser.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--path "<replaceable class="option">PATH(S)</replaceable>"</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Use the (space- or colon-separated) list of filesystem paths specified
by <replaceable>PATHS</replaceable> to load <acronym>DTD</acronym>s or
entities. Enclose space-separated lists by quotation marks.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--quiet</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Don't print informational messages to stderr.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--sax</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Print SAX callbacks for debugging. Can be used
for streaming DTD and Schema validation when used
with <option>--noout</option>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--shell</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Run a navigating shell. Details on available commands in shell mode
are below (see <xref linkend="shell"/>).
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--stream</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Use streaming <acronym>API</acronym> - useful when used in combination
with <option>--relaxng</option> or <option>--valid</option> options
for validation of files that are too large to be held in memory.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--version</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Display the version of libxml2 used.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="output-options">
<title>OUTPUT OPTIONS</title>
<para>
Options controlling output. Except for <option>--noout</option>
these have no effect in SAX or stream mode.
</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--compress</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Turn on <citerefentry>
<refentrytitle>gzip</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
</citerefentry> compression of output.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--c14n</option></term>
<term><option>--c14n11</option></term>
<term><option>--exc-c14n</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Use the W3C <acronym>XML</acronym> Canonicalisation (<acronym>C14N</acronym>) to
serialize the result of parsing to <filename class="devicefile">stdout</filename>.
It keeps comments in the result.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--encode <replaceable class="option">ENCODING</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Output in the given encoding. Note that this works for full document not fragments or result from XPath queries.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--format</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Reformat and reindent the output. The <envar>XMLLINT_INDENT</envar>
environment variable controls the indentation. The default value is two
spaces " ").
</para>
<para>
Especially in the absence of a DTD, this feature has never worked reliably
and is fundamentally broken.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--noout</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Suppress output. By default, &xmllint; outputs the result tree.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--output <replaceable class="option">FILE</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Define a file path where &xmllint; will save the result of parsing.
Usually the programs build a tree and save it
on <filename class="devicefile">stdout</filename>, with this option
the result <acronym>XML</acronym> instance will be saved onto a file.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--pretty <replaceable class="option">INTEGER</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Value 0 means no formatting, 1 means XML_SAVE_FORMAT
(same as --format), 2 means XML_SAVE_WSNONSIG.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--xmlout</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Used in conjunction with <option>--html</option>. Usually
when <acronym>HTML</acronym> is parsed the document is saved with
the <acronym>HTML</acronym> serializer. But with this option the
resulting document is saved with the <acronym>XML</acronym>
serializer. This is primarily used to
generate <acronym>XHTML</acronym> from <acronym>HTML</acronym> input.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="debug-options">
<title>DEBUG OPTIONS</title>
<para>
The following options can be used to debug the libxml2 library.
Behavior of these options may change without notice.
</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--auto</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Generate a small document for testing purposes.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--copy</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Test the internal copy implementation.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--debug</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Parse a file and output an annotated tree of the
in-memory version of the document.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--insert</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Test for valid insertions. DEPRECATED: This feature
will be removed.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--load-trace</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Display all the documents loaded during the processing
to <filename class="devicefile">stderr</filename>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--maxmem <replaceable class="option">NNBYTES</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Test the parser memory support. <replaceable>NNBYTES</replaceable>
is the maximum number of bytes the library is allowed to allocate.
This can also be used to make sure batch processing
of <acronym>XML</acronym> files will not exhaust the virtual memory
of the server running them.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--memory</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Parse from memory.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--nocompact</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Do not generate compact text nodes (parser option
XML_PARSE_COMPACT). Only for debugging.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--nodict</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Don't use dictionaries (parser option XML_PARSE_NODICT).
Only for debugging.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--noxincludenode</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Do XInclude processing but do not generate XInclude start and end nodes.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--pattern <replaceable class="option">PATTERNVALUE</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Used to exercise the pattern recognition engine, which can be used
with the reader interface to the parser. It allows to select some
nodes in the document based on an XPath (subset) expression. Used
for debugging.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--postvalid</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Validate after parsing has completed.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--push</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Use the push mode of the parser.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--repeat</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Repeat 100 times, for timing or profiling.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--sax1</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Use deprecated SAX1 interface (only for debugging).</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--timing</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Output information about the time it takes &xmllint; to perform the
various steps.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--walker</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Test the walker module, which is a reader interface but for a
document tree, instead of using the reader <acronym>API</acronym> on
an unparsed document it works on an existing in-memory tree. Used for
debugging.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--xpath "<replaceable class="option">XPath_expression</replaceable>"</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Run an XPath expression given as argument and print the
result. In case of a nodeset result, each node in the
node set is serialized in full in the output. In case
of an empty node set the "XPath set is empty" result
will be shown and exit code 11 will be returned..
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="shell">
<title>SHELL COMMANDS</title>
<para>
&xmllint; offers an interactive shell mode invoked with
the <option>--shell</option> command. Available commands in shell mode
include (in alphabetical order):
</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>base</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Display <acronym>XML</acronym> base of the node.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>bye</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Leave the shell.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>cat <replaceable>NODE</replaceable></command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Display the given node or the current one.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>cd <replaceable>PATH</replaceable></command></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Change the current node to the given path (if unique) or root if no
argument is given.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>dir <replaceable>PATH</replaceable></command></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Dumps information about the node (namespace, attributes, content).
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>du <replaceable>PATH</replaceable></command></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Show the structure of the subtree under the given path or the current node.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>exit</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Leave the shell.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>help</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Show this help.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>load <replaceable>FILENAME</replaceable></command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Load a new document with the given filename.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>ls <replaceable>PATH</replaceable></command></term>
<listitem>
<para>List contents of the given path or the current directory.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>pwd</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Display the path to the current node.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>quit</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Leave the shell.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>save <replaceable>FILENAME</replaceable></command></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Save the current document to the given filename or to the original name.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>validate</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Check the document for errors.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>write <replaceable>FILENAME</replaceable></command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Write the current node to the given filename.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="environment">
<title>ENVIRONMENT</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><envar>SGML_CATALOG_FILES</envar></term>
<listitem>
<para><acronym>SGML</acronym> catalog behavior can be changed by redirecting
queries to the user's own set of catalogs. This can be done by setting
the <envar>SGML_CATALOG_FILES</envar> environment variable to a list
of catalogs. An empty one should deactivate loading the
default catalog.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><envar>XML_CATALOG_FILES</envar></term>
<listitem>
<para><acronym>XML</acronym> catalog behavior can be changed by redirecting
queries to the user's own set of catalogs. This can be done by setting
the <envar>XML_CATALOG_FILES</envar> environment variable to a space-separated
list of catalogs. Use percent-encoding to escape spaces or other characters.
An empty variable should deactivate loading the default catalog.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><envar>XML_DEBUG_CATALOG</envar></term>
<listitem>
<para>Setting the environment variable <envar>XML_DEBUG_CATALOG</envar>
to <parameter>non-zero</parameter> using the <command>export</command>
command outputs debugging information related to catalog operations.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><envar>XMLLINT_INDENT</envar></term>
<listitem>
<para>Setting the environment variable <envar>XMLLINT_INDENT</envar>
controls the indentation. The default value is two spaces " ".
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="diagnostics">
<title>DIAGNOSTICS</title>
<para>
&xmllint; return codes provide information that can be used when
calling it from scripts.
</para>
<!-- better use segmentedlist element later,
which is currently only supported in snapshots -->
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><errorcode>0</errorcode></term>
<listitem>
<para>No error</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><errorcode>1</errorcode></term>
<listitem>
<para>Unclassified</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><errorcode>2</errorcode></term>
<listitem>
<para>Error in <acronym>DTD</acronym></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><errorcode>3</errorcode></term>
<listitem>
<para>Validation error</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><errorcode>4</errorcode></term>
<listitem>
<para>Document isn't well-formed or couldn't be read</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><errorcode>5</errorcode></term>
<listitem>
<para>Error in schema compilation</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><errorcode>6</errorcode></term>
<listitem>
<para>Error writing output</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><errorcode>7</errorcode></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Error in pattern (generated when <option>--pattern</option> option is used)
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><errorcode>9</errorcode></term>
<listitem>
<para>Out of memory error</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><errorcode>10</errorcode></term>
<listitem>
<para>XPath evaluation error</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><errorcode>11</errorcode></term>
<listitem>
<para>XPath result is empty</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="seealso">
<title>SEE ALSO</title>
<para>
More information can be found in the libxml2 repo at
<ulink url="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2"/>
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>