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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3><B>1 - Full
documentation:</B></FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-US"><B>The
</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-US"><I><B>Eeschema
documentation, chapter 14</B></I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-US"><B>
describes this intermediate netlist and gives examples<BR>See also
</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-US"><I><B>https://answers.launchpad.net/kicad/+faq/2265</B></I></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3><B><I>2 - </I>The
intermediate Netlist File</B></FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>BOM files (and
netlist files) can be created from an Intermediate netlist file
created by Eeschema.</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>This file uses XML
syntax and is called the intermediate netlist. The intermediate
netlist includes a large amount of data about your board and because
of this, it can be used with post-processing to create a BOM or other
reports.</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>Depending on the
output (BOM or netlist), different subsets of the complete
Intermediate Netlist file will be used in the post-processing.</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3><B>3 - Conversion to
a new format</B></FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>By applying a
post-processing filter to the Intermediate netlist file you can
generate foreign netlist files as well as BOM files. Because this
conversion is a text to text transformation.</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>this post-processing
filter can be written using Python, XSLT, or any other tool capable
of taking XML as input.</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">XSLT
itself is a XML language very suitable for XML transformations. There
is a free program called </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">xsltproc</SPAN></I><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal">
</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">that
you can download and install. The</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal">
</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">xsltproc
program can be used to read the Intermediate XML netlist input file,
apply</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"> </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">a
style-sheet to transform the input, and save the results in an output
file. Use of xsltproc requires a style-sheet file using XSLT
conventions. The full conversion process is handled</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal">
</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">by
Eeschema, after it is configured once to run xsltproc in a specific
way.</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3><B>4 -
Initialization of the dialog window</B></FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>You should add a new
pluging (a script) in plugin list by clicking on the Add Plugin
button.</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3><B>4.1 - Plugin
Configuration Parameters</B></FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>The Eeschema plug-in
configuration dialog requires the following information:</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>The title: for
instance, the name of the netlist format.</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>The command line to
launch the converter (usually a script).</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>Once you click on
the generate button the following will happen:</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>Eeschema creates an
intermediate netlist file *.xml, for instance <I>test.xml.</I></FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>Eeschema runs the
script from the command line to create the final output file.</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3><B>4.2 - Generate
netlist files with the command line</B></FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>Assuming we are
using the program <I>xsltproc.exe</I><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal">
</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">to
apply the sheet style to the intermediate file, </SPAN></SPAN><I>xsltproc.exe</I><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal">
</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">is
executed with the following command.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>xsltproc.exe -o &lt;
output filename &gt; &lt; style-sheet filename &gt; &lt; input XML
file to convert &gt;</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt">On</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt">Windows the command line is the
following.<BR></FONT><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><I>f:/kicad/bin/xsltproc.exe
-o &ldquo;%O&rdquo; f:/kicad/bin/plugins/myconverter.xsl &ldquo;%I&rdquo;</I></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt">On</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt">Linux the command becomes as
following.<BR></FONT><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><I>xsltproc
-o &ldquo;%O&rdquo; /usr/local/kicad/bin/plugins/myconverter .xsl
&ldquo;%I&rdquo;</I></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Where
</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">myconverter</SPAN></I></FONT></SPAN><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">.xsl</SPAN></I></FONT><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal">
</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">is
the style-sheet that you are applying. Do not forget the double
quotes</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal">
</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">around
the file names, this allows them to have spaces after the
substitution by Eeschema.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>The command line
format accepts parameters for filenames:</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>The supported
formatting parameters are.</FONT></FONT></P>
<UL>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>%B =&gt; base
filename and path of selected output file, minus path and extension.</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>%I =&gt; complete
filename and path of the temporary input file (the intermediate net
file).</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>%O =&gt; complete
filename and path of the user chosen output file.</FONT></FONT></P>
</UL>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>%I will be replaced
by the actual intermediate file name<BR><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">%O
will be replaced by the actual output file name.</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3><B>4.3 - Command
line format: example for <SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">xsltproc</SPAN></SPAN></B></FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">The
command line format for xsltproc is the following:<BR>&lt; path of
</SPAN></SPAN>xsltproc &gt; <SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">xsltproc
&lt; </SPAN></SPAN>xsltproc parameters &gt;</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>On
Windows:<BR><I><B>f:/kicad/bin/xsltproc.exe -o &ldquo;%O&rdquo;
f:/kicad/bin/plugins/netlist_form_pads-pcb.xsl &ldquo;%I&rdquo;</B></I></FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt">On</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt">Linux:<BR></FONT><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><I><B>xsltproc
-o &ldquo;%O&rdquo;
/usr/local/kicad/bin/plugins/netlist_form_pads-pcb.xsl &ldquo;%I&rdquo;</B></I></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">The
above examples assume</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal">
</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">xsltproc
is installed on your PC under Windows and all files located in
kicad/bin.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3><B>4.4 - Command
line format: example fo<SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">r
python scripts</SPAN></SPAN></B></FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>The command line
format for python is something like:<BR><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">python</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal">
</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">&lt;
script file name </SPAN></SPAN>&gt; &lt; input filename &gt; &lt;
output filename &gt;</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>On
Windows:<BR><I><B>python.exe f:/kicad/python/my_python_script.py</B></I>
&ldquo;<I><B>%I&rdquo; &ldquo;%O&rdquo;</B></I></FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>On Linux:<BR><I><B>python</B></I>
<I><B>/usr/local/kicad/python/my_python_script.py</B></I> &ldquo;<I><B>%I&rdquo;
&ldquo;%O&rdquo;</B></I></FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT SIZE=3>Assuming python is
installed on your PC.</FONT></FONT></P>
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