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NAMExml2dcm - Convert XML document to DICOM file or data set SYNOPSISxml2dcm [options] xmlfile-in dcmfile-out DESCRIPTIONThe xml2dcm utility converts the contents of an XML (Extensible Markup Language) document to DICOM file or data set. The XML document is expected to validate against the DTD (Document Type Definition) which is described in file dcm2xml.dtd. An appropriate XML file can be created using the dcm2xml tool (option +Wb recommended to include binary data). PARAMETERSxmlfile-in XML input filename to be converted ("-" for stdin) dcmfile-out DICOM output filename ("-" for stdout) OPTIONSgeneral options
input optionsinput file format: processing optionsvalidation: output optionsoutput file format: NOTESThe basic structure of the XML input expected looks like the following: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE file-format SYSTEM "dcm2xml.dtd"> <file-format xmlns="http://dicom.offis.de/dcmtk"> The 'file-format' and 'meta-header' tags may be absent for DICOM data sets. Character EncodingThe DICOM character encoding is determined automatically from the element with tag '0008,0005' (Specific Character Set) - if present. The following character sets are currently supported (requires libxml to include iconv support, see --version output): ASCII (ISO_IR 6) (UTF-8) UTF-8 "ISO_IR 192" (UTF-8) ISO Latin 1 "ISO_IR 100" (ISO-8859-1) ISO Latin 2 "ISO_IR 101" (ISO-8859-2) ISO Latin 3 "ISO_IR 109" (ISO-8859-3) ISO Latin 4 "ISO_IR 110" (ISO-8859-4) ISO Latin 5 "ISO_IR 148" (ISO-8859-9) ISO Latin 9 "ISO_IR 203" (ISO-8859-15) Cyrillic "ISO_IR 144" (ISO-8859-5) Arabic "ISO_IR 127" (ISO-8859-6) Greek "ISO_IR 126" (ISO-8859-7) Hebrew "ISO_IR 138" (ISO-8859-8) Multiple character sets are not supported (only the first value of the 'Specific Character Set' is used for the character encoding in case of value multiplicity). See dcm2xml documentation for more details on the XML structure. Binary DataBinary data (*) can be encoded either as a sequence of hex numbers separated by a backslash '\' or in Base64 format (binary='base64'). In addition, binary data can also be read from file (binary='file'). In this case, the filename has to be specified as the element value, e.g. <element tag="7fe0,0010" vr="OW" ... binary="file">subdir/pixeldata.raw</element> Please note that the contents of the file will be read as is. OW data is expected to be little endian ordered and will be swapped if necessary. No checks will be made to ensure that the amount of data is reasonable in terms of other attributes such as Rows or Columns. (*) Please note that currently only OB and OW data is supported, i.e. element values with a VR of OD, OF, OL and OV are not regarded as 'binary data' and treated as all other VRs. CompressionIf libxml is compiled with zlib support, the input file (xmlfile-in) can also be compressed with ZIP, which usually results in much smaller files. See output of option --version in order to check whether zlib support is available. LimitationsDifferent versions of libxml might have different limits for the maximum length of an XML element value. Therefore, it should be avoided to use very long element values (e.g. for pixel data). Please note that xml2dcm currently does not fully support DICOMDIR files. Specifically, the value of the various offset data elements is not updated automatically by this tool. LOGGINGThe level of logging output of the various command line tools and underlying libraries can be specified by the user. By default, only errors and warnings are written to the standard error stream. Using option --verbose also informational messages like processing details are reported. Option --debug can be used to get more details on the internal activity, e.g. for debugging purposes. Other logging levels can be selected using option --log-level. In --quiet mode only fatal errors are reported. In such very severe error events, the application will usually terminate. For more details on the different logging levels, see documentation of module 'oflog'. In case the logging output should be written to file (optionally with logfile rotation), to syslog (Unix) or the event log (Windows) option --log-config can be used. This configuration file also allows for directing only certain messages to a particular output stream and for filtering certain messages based on the module or application where they are generated. An example configuration file is provided in <etcdir>/logger.cfg. COMMAND LINEAll command line tools use the following notation for parameters: square brackets enclose optional values (0-1), three trailing dots indicate that multiple values are allowed (1-n), a combination of both means 0 to n values. Command line options are distinguished from parameters by a leading '+' or '-' sign, respectively. Usually, order and position of command line options are arbitrary (i.e. they can appear anywhere). However, if options are mutually exclusive the rightmost appearance is used. This behavior conforms to the standard evaluation rules of common Unix shells. In addition, one or more command files can be specified using an '@' sign as a prefix to the filename (e.g. @command.txt). Such a command argument is replaced by the content of the corresponding text file (multiple whitespaces are treated as a single separator unless they appear between two quotation marks) prior to any further evaluation. Please note that a command file cannot contain another command file. This simple but effective approach allows one to summarize common combinations of options/parameters and avoids longish and confusing command lines (an example is provided in file <datadir>/dumppat.txt). ENVIRONMENTThe xml2dcm utility will attempt to load DICOM data dictionaries specified in the DCMDICTPATH environment variable. By default, i.e. if the DCMDICTPATH environment variable is not set, the file <datadir>/dicom.dic will be loaded unless the dictionary is built into the application (default for Windows). The default behavior should be preferred and the DCMDICTPATH environment variable only used when alternative data dictionaries are required. The DCMDICTPATH environment variable has the same format as the Unix shell PATH variable in that a colon (':') separates entries. On Windows systems, a semicolon (';') is used as a separator. The data dictionary code will attempt to load each file specified in the DCMDICTPATH environment variable. It is an error if no data dictionary can be loaded. FILES<datadir>/dcm2xml.dtd - Document Type Definition (DTD) file SEE ALSOdcm2xml(1) COPYRIGHTCopyright (C) 2003-2024 by OFFIS e.V., Escherweg 2, 26121 Oldenburg, Germany.
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