This is what XSLT is for. You can run XSLT transforms from the command line with xsltproc (apt-get xsltproc) XSLT language, is a topic of its own, but it is a functional language very much like lisp, except task-specific to transforming xml documents.
On 2018-09-11 11:48 PM, der.hans wrote: > moin moin, > > Actually, sgrep with sed for XML :). > > I have a chunk of XML I would like to transform. Any suggestions on how to > do the following from the command line? > > ---- > <table:table-row> > <table:table-cell table:style-name="Table1.A1" > office:value-type="string"> > <text:p text:style-name="Standard">blah content stuff</text:p> > </table:table-cell> > <table:table-cell table:number-columns-spanned="2" > office:value-type="string"> > <text:p text:style-name="Standard"/> > </table:table-cell> > <table:covered-table-cell/> > </table:table-row> > ---- > > I would like to make the first cell span 3 columns and wipe out the second > cell. > > The graphical tool essentially turns it into the following. > > ---- > <table:table-row> > <table:table-cell table:style-name="Table1.A2" > table:number-columns-spanned="3" office:value-type="string"> > <text:p text:style-name="Standard">blah content stuff</text:p> > </table:table-cell> > <table:covered-table-cell/> > </table:table-row> > ---- > > A new style, Table1.A2, is introduced. That cell is spanned across three > columnts. The table:table-cell object for the second cell is removed. > > I can do this with sed, but that invites XML issues. Also, there are some > more complex changes I want to make. > > ciao, > > der.hans
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