User Manual

This dm user manual explains the use of the tool and how to configure a processing pipeline.

Command Line Parameters

Each task can have a number of parts: a tag, a list of attributes, a number of (child-)elements and a text content:

Structure of a task definition

tagname: attribute2="v2" 
    element1: attribute="v3" "value"

    Text content.

The following table provides an overview over the tasks that are available to build processing pipelines:

Task/Tag name	Description
`code-highlight`	adds syntax highlighting to `<code>` tags
`copy`	copies the content of a file
`diagram-to-svg`	transforms a diagram to an SVG element
`dump`	displays the output on the console
`embed-svg`	transforms an element to an embedded PNG image
`file`	creates an input document from within a pipeline
`if`	conditionally executes tasks
`include`	combines several input files
`klartext-to-xml`	converts klartext to XML
`load`	loads a single input file
`markdown-include`	processes a markdown include file
`markdown-to-xhtml`	converts markdown to xhtml
`pdf-to-png`	converts a PDF file to a set of images
`pngs-to-pptx`	converts a set of images to a pptx file
`save`	saves the output to a file
`sequence`	executes child tasks
`xhtml-to-docx`	converts an xhtml file to docx
`xhtml-to-pdf`	converts an xhtml file to PDF with a stylesheet transformation
`xml-tidy`	pretty-prints an XML-file
`xml-transform`	transforms an XML document with an XSLT transformation
`xml-validate`	validates an XML-file