On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Nick Rout wrote:
I want to manipulate some XML stuff, including:
Personally I favour ruby+rexml for such a task. It has document at once
mode and a SAX mode like Carl's python example.
Another option is xmlstarlet it is available as a debian package or
from...
xmlstarlet --help
XMLStarlet Toolkit: Command line utilities for XML
Usage: xml [<options>] <command> [<cmd-options>]
where <command> is one of:
ed (or edit) - Edit/Update XML document(s)
sel (or select) - Select data or query XML document(s) (XPATH, etc)
tr (or transform) - Transform XML document(s) using XSLT
val (or validate) - Validate XML document(s)
(well-formed/DTD/XSD/RelaxNG)
fo (or format) - Format XML document(s)
el (or elements) - Display element structure of XML document
c14n (or canonic) - XML canonicalization
ls (or list) - List directory as XML
esc (or escape) - Escape special XML characters
unesc (or unescape) - Unescape special XML characters
pyx (or xmln) - Convert XML into PYX format (based on ESIS - ISO
8879)
p2x (or depyx) - Convert PYX into XML
<options> are:
--version - show version
--help - show help
Wherever file name mentioned in command help it is assumed
that URL can be used instead as well.
Type: xml <command> --help <ENTER> for command help
XMLStarlet is a command line toolkit to query/edit/check/transform
XML documents (for more information see http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/)
It basically seems to be a command line wrapper on XSLT. (Beware, there be
Dragons.)
I'll admit I make frequent use of xmlstarlet validate and element
structure facilty.
eg.
xmlstarlet el http://www.clug.org.nz
html
html/head
html/head/meta
html/head/meta
html/head/meta
html/head/meta
html/head/meta
html/head/meta
html/head/meta
html/head/meta
html/head/meta
html/head/meta
html/head/base
html/head/link
html/head/link
html/head/link
html/head/link
html/head/link
html/head/link
html/head/link
html/head/link
html/head/link
html/head/link
html/head/link
html/head/link
html/head/link
html/head/link
html/head/style
html/head/title
html/body
html/body/div
html/body/div/div
html/body/div/div/a
html/body/div/div/a/img
html/body/div/div
html/body/div/div/form
html/body/div/div/form/input
html/body/div/div/form/div
html/body/div/div/form/div/a
html/body/div/div/form/div/a/img
html/body/div/div/form/div/a
html/body/div/div/form/div/a/img
html/body/div/div/form/div/input
html/body/div/div/form/div/input
html/body/div/div/form/div/input
Useful to understand the structure of an xml doc
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