Relaton CLI (relaton-cli): Relaton Command-line Interface

Documentation in development.

Please refer to https://github.com/relaton/relaton.

Commands

Each command has an option --verbose (the short form is -v). Use the option to get warnings in the commands output. The following commands are provided.

relaton concatenate

$ relaton concatenate Source-Directory Relaton-Collection-File -t TITLE -g ORGANIZATION

Iterates through all the Relaton files (YAML and XML) in Source-Directory, and concatenates them into a Relaton Collection file. The extension of the Collection file can be set using the Relaton-Collection-File file name (i.e, if it uses an extension of yaml, a Relaton YAML file will be created; if rxl, a Relaton XML file will be created, or via the -x [ext] (or --extension) option.

For each Relaton input file in the Source-Directory, if a document file with the same base name is identified (i.e. an XML, HTML, PDF or DOC file) a link to that file is inserted.

If the TITLE or ORGANIZATION options are given, they are added to the Collection-File output as the title and author of the Relaton-Collection-File document.

relaton split

$ relaton split Relaton-Collection-File Relaton-File-Directory -x rxl

Splits a Relaton-Collection-File into multiple files in the Relaton-File-Directory, and it also suports an additional -x or --extension options to use different extension.

relaton fetch

$ relaton fetch CODE -t TYPE -f FORMAT -y YEAR -r RETRIES --all-parts --keep-year --no-cache

Fetch the Relaton XML entry corresponding to the document identifier CODE.

YEAR is optional and specifies the year of publication of the standard.
FORMAT is optional, and specifies the output format; the recognized values for FORMAT are xml (default), yaml, bibtex.
TYPE is optional and specifies the standards class library to be used, that the identifier is part of. The recognized values for TYPE are: 3GPP, BIPM, CCTF, CCDS, CGPM, CIPM, JCRB, JCGM, BSI, BS, PD, CC, CCSDS, CEN, EN, ENV, CWA, HD, CR, CIE, DOI, ECMA, ETSI, CN, GB, GB/T, GB/Z, IANA, IEC, CISPR, IEV, IEEE, ANSI, NACE, AIEE, ASA, IRE, IETF, RFC, BCP, FYI, STD, I-D, IHO, ISBN, ISO, ISO/IEC, ITU, JIS, TR, NIST, NBS, NISTGCR, ITL Bulletin, JPCRD, NISTIR, CSRC, FIPS, OASIS, OGC, OMG, UN, W3C, XEP, PLATEAU.
RETRIES is optional, number of network retries (default 1).
--all-parts fetch all parts.
--keep-year undated reference should return an actual reference with year.
--no-cache do not use cache.

relaton fetch-data

$ relaton fetch-data DATASET -o DIR -f FORMAT

Fetch all the documents from a DATASET source and save them to a folder DIR in the format FORMAT.

The following datasets are available:

nist-tech-pubs - https://github.com/usnistgov/NIST-Tech-Pubs/releases/download/May2024/allrecords-MODS.xml
cie-techstreet - https://www.techstreet.com/cie/searches/31156444
calconnect-org - https://standards.calconnect.org/relaton/index.yaml
ogc-naming-authority - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/opengeospatial/NamingAuthority/master/incubation/bibliography/bibliography.json
ieee-rawbib - looks for the IEEE dataset in the local ./ieee-rawbib directory. The dataset could be downloaded from https://github.com/ietf-ribose/ieee-rawbib repository
w3c-rdf - http://www.w3.org/2002/01/tr-automation/tr.rdf
w3c-tr-archive - looks for the W3C archive dataset in local ./w3c-tr-archive directory. The dataset could be downloaded from https://github.com/relaton/w3c-tr-archive repository
iana-registries - https://github.com/ietf-ribose/iana-registries
status-smg-3GPP - updates previously downloaded data if a new archive is available in ftp://www.3gpp.org/Information/Databases/
status-smg-3GPP-force - download data from the latest archive in ftp://www.3gpp.org/Information/Databases/
ietf-rfcsubseries - https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-index.xml (<bcp-entry>, <fyi-entry>, <std-entry>)
ietf-internet-drafts - looks for the Internet-Drafts dataset in the local ./bibxml-ids directory. The dataset could be downloaded using rsync -avcizxL rsync.ietf.org::bibxml-ids ./bibxml-ids command.
ietf-rfc-entries - https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-index.xml (<rfc-entry>)
oasis-open - https://www.oasis-open.org/standards/
bipm-data-outcomes - looks for the BIPM dataset in the local ./bipm-data-outcomes directory. The dataset could be downloaded from https://github.com/metanorma/bipm-data-outcomes repository
si-brochure - looks for the SI-Brochure dataset in the local ./bipm-si-brocure directory. The dataset could be downloaded from https://github.com/metanorma/bipm-si-brochure repository
ecma-standards - https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/
itu-r - https://extranet.itu.int/brdocsearch
ccsds - https://public.ccsds.org/Publications/AllPubs.aspx
etsi-csv - https://www.etsi.org/
plateau-handbooks - https://www.mlit.go.jp/plateau/_next/data/1.3.0/libraries/handbooks.json
plateau-technical-reports - https://www.mlit.go.jp/plateau/_next/data/1.3.0/libraries/technical-reports.json

Options:

DIR - folder name to store documents (default ./data).
FORMAT - format in which the documents are saved. Possible formats are: yaml, xml, bibxml (default yaml).

relaton extract

$ relaton extract Metanorma-XML-Directory Relaton-XML-Directory -x EXTENSION

Iterate through all the Metanorma XML files in Metanorma-XML-Directory, and extract the bibdata element from each. Save the bibdata element for each file to Relaton-XML-Directory, as the Relaton XML description for that file. If a document identifier is present in bibdata, it is used as the name of the file; otherwise, the original file name is used. The filename is suffixed with EXTENSION; by default, .rxl is used.

relaton xml2html

$ relaton xml2html <relaton-xml> [<stylesheet>] [<html-template-dir>]

Render a Relaton Collection XML as an HTML file. Used to generate an HTML index of standards.

relaton-xml is the Relaton Collection XML file.
stylesheet is the CSS stylesheet to be used to style the output. For the CSS styling of each bibliographic element, see below.
html-template-dir is a directory containing HTML Liquid Template files into which the bibliographic entries are to be inserted. There are two templates necessary:
- Index template (index.liquid)
  - The HTML Template file _index.liquid recognizes the following parameters:
  - css: where the CSS stylesheet stylesheet is injected
  - title: the Title of the collection, ./relaton-collection/title in relaton-xml
  - author: the Author of the collection, ./relaton-collection/contributor[role/@type = 'author']/organization/name in relaton-xml
  - content: the list of resources generated by the script
- Individual bibliographic entries template (_document.liquid)
  - This template recognizes attributes of a bibliographic entry (document) that follow the naming convention of Relaton YAML; e.g. document.html is the HTML URI for the document.

The default stylesheet and templates are given (which also demonstrates the structure) in the templates directory.

Sample HTML output for a bibliographic entry:

<div class="document">
  <div class="doc-line">
    <div class="doc-identifier">
      <h2>
        <a href="http://calconnect.org/pubdocs/CD0507%20CalDAV%20Use%20Cases%20V1.0.html">CC/R 3101</a>
      </h2>
    </div>
    <div class="doc-type-wrap">
      <div class="doc-type report">report</div>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="doc-title">
    <h3>
      <a href="http://calconnect.org/pubdocs/CD0507%20CalDAV%20Use%20Cases%20V1.0.html">CalConnect XLIII -- Position on the European Union daylight-savings timezone change</a>
    </h3>
  </div>
  <div class="doc-info cancelled">
    <div class="doc-stage cancelled">cancelled</div>
    <div class="doc-dates">
      <div class="doc-updated">2019-10-17</div>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="doc-bib">
    <div class="doc-bib-relaton">
      <a href="csd/cc-r-3101.xml">Relaton XML</a>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="doc-access">
    <div class="doc-access-button-html">
      <a href="http://calconnect.org/pubdocs/CD0507%20CalDAV%20Use%20Cases%20V1.0.html">HTML</a>
    </div>
    <div class="doc-access-button-pdf">
      <a href="http://calconnect.org/pubdocs/CD0507%20CalDAV%20Use%20Cases%20V1.0.pdf">PDF</a>
    </div>
    <div class="doc-access-button-doc">
      <a href="http://calconnect.org/pubdocs/CD0507%20CalDAV%20Use%20Cases%20V1.0.doc">Word</a>
    </div>
    <div class="doc-access-button-xml">
      <a href="http://calconnect.org/pubdocs/CD0507%20CalDAV%20Use%20Cases%20V1.0.xml">XML</a>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

relaton yaml2xml

$ relaton yaml2xml YAML -o OUTPUT-DIRECTORY -x RELATON_EXTENSION -p PREFIX -r LIBRARY

Convert a Relaton YAML file (filename.yaml) into a Relaton XML file (filename.xml). If the Relaton YAML file specifies multiple bibliograph items, and OUTPUT-DIRECTORY is nominated, also convert the file into a list of Relaton XML files for each entry, stored in that directory. The document identifier is used as the name of each Relaton XML file; the Relaton XML filename is suffixed with RELATON_EXTENSION (default .rxl) and prefixed with PREFIX (default empty). Any libraries that need to be required for the conversion are specified in LIBRARY as a space-delimited list.

A Relaton Collection YAML file contains some initial metadata and a list of metadata about each bibliographic entry:

root:
  author: The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium
  title: CalConnect Standards Registry
  items:
    - technical_committee: PUBLISH
      docid:
        type: CC
        id: CC 36000
        primary: true
      type: standard
      title:
        type: main
        content: Standardization documents -- Vocabulary
      docstatus:
        stage: proposal
      date:
        type: issued
        value:  2018-10-25
    - technical_committee: DATETIME
      docid:
        type: CC
        id: CC 34000
        primary: true
      type: standard
      title:
        type: main
        content: Date and time -- Concepts and vocabulary
      docstatus:
        stage: proposal
      date:
        type: issued
        value: 2018-10-25

A Relaton YAML file describing an individual bibliographic entry is limited to metadata specific to that entry. Flavor gems have additional fields. The Relaton YAML illustrates the common fields supported by all flavor gems.

relaton xml2yaml

$ relaton xml2yaml XML -o OUTPUT-DIRECTORY -x RELATON_EXTENSION -p PREFIX -r LIBRARY

Convert a Relaton XML file (filename.xml or filename.rxl) into a Relaton YAML file (filename.yaml). If the Relaton XML file is a collection, and OUTPUT-DIRECTORY is nominated, also convert the file into a list of Relaton YAML files for each entry, stored in that directory. The document identifier is used as the name of each Relaton XML file; the Relaton XML filename is suffixed with RELATON_EXTENSION (default .yaml) and prefixed with PREFIX (default empty). Any libraries that need to be required for the conversion are specified in LIBRARY as a space-delimited list.

relaton yaml2html

$ relaton yaml2html YAML [<stylesheet>] [<liquid-template-dir>]

Render a Relaton YAML file (filename.yaml) as an HTML file. The stylesheet and liquid-template-dir directories are as for relaton xml2html.

relaton convert

$ relaton convert XML -f FORMAT -o OUTPUT-FILE

Convert a Relaton XML document into YAML, AsciiBib, or BibTex format. Allowed -f or --format options are yaml, asciibib, bibtex. If the option -o or --output is omitted then a new file will be created in the folder where the original file is, with the same name but another appropriated extension.

relaton version

$ relaton version
CLI => 1.17.2
relaton => 1.17.2
relaton-bib => 1.17.2
relaton-iso-bib => 1.17.0
relaton-gb => 1.17.0
relaton-iec => 1.17.0
relaton-ietf => 1.17.0
relaton-iso => 1.17.0
relaton-itu => 1.17.0
relaton-nist => 1.17.0
relaton-ogc => 1.17.1
relaton-calconnect => 1.17.0
relaton-omg => 1.17.0
relaton-un => 1.17.0
relaton-w3c => 1.17.2
relaton-ieee => 1.17.0
relaton-iho => 1.17.0
relaton-bipm => 1.17.0
relaton-ecma => 1.17.0
relaton-cie => 1.17.0
relaton-bsi => 1.17.0
relaton-cen => 1.17.0
relaton-iana => 1.17.0
relaton-3gpp => 1.17.0
relaton-oasis => 1.17.0
relaton-doi => 1.17.0
relaton-jis => 1.17.0
relaton-xsf => 1.17.0
relaton-ccsds => 1.17.0
relaton-etsi => 1.17.0
relaton-isbn => 1.17.0

relaton collection

The relaton collection is a set of subcommands for collection manipulations.

relaton collection create

$ relaton collection create COLLECTION -d DIRECTORY --author AUTHOR --title TITLE --doctype DOCTYPE

Create a new empty collection with the name COLLECTION. * DIRECTORY - optional, and specifies a path to a directory with collections. The default value is $HOME/.relaton/collections. * AUTHOR, TITLE, and DOCTYPE are optional.

relaton collection info

$ relaton collection info COLLECTION -d DIRECTORY

Show information about COLLECTION (number of items, file size of collection, last updated, name, metadata). * DIRECTORY is optional, and specifies the path to a directory with collections. The default value is $HOME/.relaton/collections.

relaton collection list

$ relaton collection list -d DIRECTORY -e

List all collections. * DIRECTORY - optional, and specifies the path to a directory with collections. The default value is $HOME/.relaton/collections. * When parameter -e is defined the id of each entry id will be listed.

relaton collection get

$ relaton collection get CODE -c COLLECTION -d DIRECTORY -f FORMAT -o FILE

Get a document matched to CODE from COLLECTION.

COLLECTION - optional name of a collection. If undefined then fetch the first match across all collections in DIRECTORY.
DIRECTORY - optional, and specifies a path to a directory with collections. The default value is $HOME/.relaton/collections.
FORMAT - optional. If undefined then print a document in a human-readable form. Allowed values are abb (AsciiBib) or xml (XML).
FILE is optional. When it’s defined then save a document with the given file name. The file’s extension defines the format of the file. Possible extensions are abb (AsciiBib) or xml (XML).

relaton collection find

$ relaton collection find TEXT -c COLLECTION -d DIRECTORY

Full-text search through a collection or all collections.

COLLECTION - optional name of a collection. If undefined then search across all collections.
DIRECTORY - optional, and specifies a path to a directory with collections. The default value is $HOME/.relaton/collections.

relaton collection fetch

$ relaton collection fetch CODE -t TYPE -y YEAR -c COLLECTION -d DIRECTORY

Fetch the Relaton XML entry corresponding to the document identifier CODE and save it into COLLECTION.

TYPE specifies the standards class library to be used, that the identifier is part of. The recognized values for TYPE are: 3GPP, BIPM, CCTF, CCDS, CGPM, CIPM, JCRB, JCGM, BSI, BS, PD, CC, CCSDS, CEN, EN, ENV, CWA, HD, CR, CIE, DOI, ECMA, ETSI, CN, GB, GB/T, GB/Z, IANA, IEC, CISPR, IEV, IEEE, ANSI, NACE, AIEE, ASA, IRE, IETF, RFC, BCP, FYI, STD, I-D, IHO, ISBN, ISO, ISO/IEC, ITU, JIS, TR, NIST, NBS, NISTGCR, ITL Bulletin, JPCRD, NISTIR, CSRC, FIPS, OASIS, OGC, OMG, UN, W3C, XEP.
YEAR is optional, and specifies the year of publication of the standard.
COLLECTION - a name of a collection.
DIRECTORY - optional, and specifies a path to a directory with collections. The default value is $HOME/.relaton/collections.

relaton collection export

$ relaton collection export COLLECTION -d DIRECTORY

Export COLLECTION into an XML file.

DIRECTORY - optional, and specifies a path to a directory with collections. The default value is $HOME/.relaton/collections.

relaton collection import

$ relaton collection import FILE -c COLLECTION -d DIRECTORY

Import document or collection from XML FILE into COLLECTION.

COLLECTION - optional. If a collection doesn’t exist then it will be created.
DIRECTORY - optional, and specifies a path to a directory with collections. The default value is $HOME/.relaton/collections.

Dadabase manipulation

Create database

$ relaton db create DIR

Creates a new database in a directory DIR (optional, the default value is /home/USER/.relaton/dbpath). In case the target directory exists it will be used as a database.

$ relaton db create
[relaton-cli] Database is in `/Users/user/.relaton/cache`

$ relaton db create cachedb
[relaton-cli] Database is in `/Users/user/RubyProjects/relaton-cli/cachedb`

Move database

$ relaton db mv DIR

Move a database to another place DIR.

$ relaton db mv cache_dir
[relaton-cli] Database is moved to `/Users/user/RubyProjects/relaton-cli/cache_dir`

Clear database

Delete all entries from a cache DB.

$ relaton db clear

Fetch from database

$ relaton db fetch -t TYPE -f FORMAT -y YEAR

Fetch an entry from a database. See [relaton fetch](#relaton-fetch) for the explanation of the arguments.

Fetch all

Fetch all entries from a cache DB.

$ relaton db fetch_all TEXT -e EDITION -y YEAR -f FORMAT

TEXT (optional) search for a certain string
EDITION (optional) filter documents with a certain edition
YEAR (optional) filter documents by a year
FORMAT (optional) specifies the output format. Recognized values are xml (default), yaml, bibtex.

$ relaton db fetch_all
<bibitem id="ISO/IECDIR1" type="international-standard">
...

$ relaton db fetch_all 'Procedures for the technical work'
<bibitem id="ISO/IECDIR1" type="international-standard">
  <fetched>2021-04-01</fetched>
  <title type="title-main" format="text/plain" language="en" script="Latn">Procedures for the technical work</title>
...

$ relaton db fetch_all -e 3
<bibitem id="ISO2146-2010" type="standard">
...
<edition>3</edition>
...

$ relaton db fetch_all -e 8 -y 2018
<bibitem id="ISO/IECDIR2IEC" type="international-standard">
  <fetched>2021-04-01</fetched>
  <title type="title-main" format="text/plain" language="en" script="Latn">Principles and rules for the structure and drafting of ISO and IEC documents</title>
  <uri type="obp">https://www.iec.ch/members_experts/refdocs/iec/isoiecdir2%7Bed8.0.RLV%7Den.pdf</uri>
  <docidentifier type="ISO" primary="true">ISO/IEC DIR 2 IEC</docidentifier>
  <date type="published">
    <on>2018-05-01</on>
  </date>
  <edition>8</edition>
...

Get document type

$ relaton db doctype REF

Takes a reference REF and returns a document type.

$ relaton db doctype 'CN(GB/T 1.1)'
Chinese Standard
GB/T 1.1

relaton-cli

Runtime