Options

Like nearly every command tool herold comes with a set of command line options to control the behaviour of the transformation:

--in, -i

Specifies the HTML input file.

--out, -o

Specifies the DocBook XML destination file.

--help, -h

Prints a help page on the console.

--destination-encoding, -d

Specifies the encoding of the generated DocBook XML files.

--exclude, -e

Specifies a xpath expression. All elements of the html source, which match this expression are excluded from the transformation. This option can be used multiple times.

--source-encoding, -s

Specifies the encoding of the HTML source files, such as ISO-8859-1.

--root-element, -r

The root element of the document. Possible values are: book, article and reference. The default value for this option is 'article'

--docbook-script-path

The path to the grovvy scripts for HTML customization.

--html-script-path

The path to the grovvy scripts for DocBook customization.

--root-element, -r

The root element of the document. Possible values are: book, article and reference. The default value for this option is 'article'

--title, -t

The title for the resulting document.

--decompose-tables, -T

Decomposes the tables from the HTML code into single paragraphs. This can be useful, if a document contains a lot of tables for formatting reasons.

--version, -V

Displays the version of herold.