Hello docbook-apps.

I have a large set of projects that I am looking to scrub for unused graphics 
and XML files prior to sending off to localization.

Some of my colleagues have created some very basic bash and batch scripts to 
scan through the folders and find files that aren’t referenced in any of the 
source files so we can delete them, but I worry that these scripts don’t catch 
everything (unused XML files in the base directory that reference images will 
‘bless’ this images) and we could still have extraneous files left over or 
accidentally delete important ones unknowingly.

Each project has a book.xml file that is the gold master for the outputs. If 
the book.xml file or any of its includes doesn’t reference a file in the 
project, it’s safe to delete. I was hoping that I could use xmllint to tell me 
which files are loaded when I try to validate the book.xml, but I haven’t found 
the magic formula yet.

I’ve tried the following command to reference all of the loaded files during a 
pass, but it doesn’t seem to list the image files referenced, which is mostly 
the point of this exercise, and I get a lot of noise from the module files for 
the DTD on every include.
$ xmllint --load-trace book.xml --xinclude --noout &> test1

Has anyone had a similar problem to solve? Am I going about this the right way?

Thanks, and I’m open to any suggestion. If bash and xmllint don’t work here, I 
am partial to Python as an alternative. Just saying.

Eric Nordlund
Senior Technical Writer
Amazon Web Services
Ph: 206-266-8048 | 
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