Chapter 2. Installing XMLmind Assembly Processor

Make sure that you have a Java™ 8+ runtime installed on your machine. To check this, please open a command window and type "java -version" followed by Enter. You should get something looking like this:

C:\> java -version
openjdk version "24" 2025-03-18
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 24+36-3646)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24+36-3646, mixed mode)

Simply unzip assembly-X_Y_Z.zip in any directory.

After that, you can run command-line utility assembly by simply executing assembly_install_dir/bin/assembly.bat (assembly_install_dir/bin/assembly on the Mac and on Linux).

C:\> mkdir XMLmind
C:\> cd XMLmind
C:\XMLmind> unzip assembly-2_0_2.zip
C:\XMLmind> dir assembly-2_0_2
... <DIR> bin
... <DIR> doc
... <DIR> docsrc
... <DIR> legal
...
C:\XMLmind> assembly-2_0_2\bin\assembly.bat
assembly: ERROR: too few command-line arguments
Usage: assembly [option]* in_assembly_file out_docbook_file|-
...