Please add the command line option such that when it is specified: If only one file is specified in the command line (no stylesheet), then to copy this file through (if it does not embed or refer a stylesheet). It is useful to not have distinction between these files which embed/refer a stylesheet and these which do not. It is convenient to process them by the same "xsltproc" command rather than to get error message about not specified stylesheet. Versions of packages xsltproc depends on: ii libc6 2.3.1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libxml2 2.5.7-1 GNOME XML library ii libxslt1 1.0.30-3 XSLT processing library - runtime ii zlib1g 1:1.1.4-1 compression library - runtime