Part II. Reference

Table of Contents

I. Standard XProc Compound Steps

p:choose - Selects one of a number of alternative pipelines

p:declare-step - Declares an XProc pipeline

p:for-each - Iterates over a sequence of documents

p:group - Groups a sequence of steps together

p:pipeline - Declares an XProc pipeline

p:try - Catches and provides recover from dynamic errors

p:viewport - Processes inner portions of a document

II. Standard XProc Steps

p:add-attribute - Adds a single attribute to the selected element (or elements)

p:add-xml-base - Adds explicit xml:base attributes

p:compare - Compares two documents for equality

p:count - Counts the number of documents that appear in a sequence

p:delete - Deletes matching nodes

p:directory-list - Lists the files, directories, and other contents of a directory on the filesystem

p:error - Causes an error

p:escape-markup - Escapes XML markup

p:exec - Runs an external command

p:filter - Filters documents with a dynamically constructed select expression

p:hash - Computes a cryptographic hash and inserts it into a document

p:http-request - Interact with other systems over HTTP

p:identity - Passes its input through unchanged

p:insert - Inserts content into a document

p:label-elements - Adds an attribute (often xml:id) to matching elements

p:load - Loads a document from a URI

p:make-absolute-uris - Resolves relative URIs to absolute URIs in the source document

p:namespace-rename - Changes the URI associated with a namespace binding

p:pack - Merges two document sequences

p:parameters - Converts step parameters into XML

p:rename - Renames elements, attributes, or processing instructions

p:replace - Replaces matching content

p:set-attributes - Sets a number of attributes at once

p:sink - Discards its input

p:split-sequence - Divides a sequence of documents into two sequences

p:store - Stores a document (usually on the filesystem)

p:string-replace - Replaces matched nodes with the result of evaluating an XPath expression

p:unescape-markup - Converts “escaped XML” back into real XML

p:unwrap - Removes an element, but not its content

p:uuid - Generates a UUID and inserts it into a document

p:validate-with-relax-ng - Validates a document using a RELAX NG grammar

p:validate-with-schematron - Validates a document using a Schematron schema

p:validate-with-xml-schema - Validates a document using W3C XML Schema

p:wrap-sequence - Places an element wrapper around a sequence of documents

p:wrap - Adds a wrapper around matching nodes

p:www-form-urldecode - Decodes URL encoded form data

p:www-form-urlencode - Encodes parameters into URL encoded form data

p:xinclude - Performs XInclude processing

p:xquery - Performs XQuery processing

p:xsl-formatter - Performs XSL FO processing

p:xslt - Performs XSLT processing

III. File Utilities

cxf:copy - Copies a file

cxf:delete - Deletes a file

cxf:head - Returns the first few lines of text file

cxf:info - Returns information about a file or directory

cxf:mkdir - Creates a directory

cxf:move - Moves (renames) a file or directory

cxf:tail - Returns the last few lines of a text file

cxf:tempfile - Creates a temporary file

cxf:touch - Update the modification time of a file

IV. Operating System Utilities

cxo:info - Returns information about the operating system

cxo:cwd - Returns the current working directory of the processor

cxo:env - Returns information about the environment

V. General Utilities

ex:recursive-directory-list - Performs p:directory-list recursively