apply-transform: Applies an XSLT (or a series of XSLTs) to a file or fileset. As might be expected this is a wrapper around the built in Ant <xslt> task but with some convenience features.

compile-schematron: Compiles a Schematron file (or files) into an XSLT using the ISO Schematron transforms, although the individual stylesheets that perform the various stages of the compilation can be overridden if required. Standard XPantS library XSLTs can also be applied directly, e.g. to remove comments.

convert-schema: A wrapper around the Trang converter (and consequently has the same limitations).

validate-instance: A wrapper around Ant’s <xmlvalidate> and <schemavalidate> tasks, along with a wrapper around the Jing validator for RNG/RNC instance files. This allows the user to use the same macro to validate an instance against any type of schema.

attr-checks: These macros are mainly used by the rest of the library as part of it’s parameter checking and error handling.

compare-files: Compare files (or filesets) using either the diff tool or DeltaXML (which must also be installed).

deploy-files: Deploys a set of files to a target. This may use the standard file system utilities (i.e. the Ant <copy> task) but options exist for using the AWS command line tool (for example, deployment to an S3 bucket) or scp.

extract-markdown: Uses XSLTs internal to the library to extract Markdown documentation from Ant build files, XSLT files or Schematron files. For Ant build files it also adds documentation around the macros and targets the file contains. XSLT file documentation is enhanced with lists of templates and Schematron files have documentation for pattern, rules, asserts and reports added. The output is Markdown, so may need to be converted into HTML (e.g. using the <pandoc> macro, below).

file-utils: These macros are mainly used by the rest of the library as part of it’s parameter checking and error handling.

aws: A wrapper around the AWS command line tool. It also includes a macro that uses the “s3 sync” command, which is used by <deploy-files>.

git: These macros provide access to the git command line functionality. Convenience functions are included for getting the current branch name, getting the current status, checking for outstanding commits (and failing the build if there are any) and checking if the current branch matches a particular pattern (e.g. failing the build if the current branch is not "release).

pandoc: A wrapper for the Pandoc document converter. Most of the important options are available as arguments to the <pandoc> macro.

python: A wrapper for the python command to run local scripts or installed modules. Also includes macros to build and install Python Package Index (PyPi) modules.

ssh: Wrappers for the ssh (Secure Shell) and scp commands. Also used by the <deploy-files> macro.

tidy: A wrapper around the HTML Tidy application.

version-number: One of the newer macros, this contains a number of functions to update version numbers that conform to the Semantic Versioning standard.

xspec: This is simply a wrapper around the xspec.bat/xspec.sh scripts provided by the XSpec install (so it should be on the path).