Comments on: The best in command line xml: XMLStarlet

By: Kolya

Kolya — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:58:53 +0000

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By: fried_european_owl_wings

fried_european_owl_wings — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:33:44 +0000

hey, why did´nt anybody tell before about this stuff? this is very _cool_ shit! it´s even in the debian repository. you just got to apt it! xml was until now somewhat of a problem on the commandline for me…thanks a lot!

By: Bonobo

Bonobo — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:11:45 +0000

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By: Andrew Hodgson

Andrew Hodgson — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:28:24 +0000

hi, really like your blog.

i use xmlstarlet at work for a couple of nagios tests (before i got into ruby and REXML anyway) and when parsing some xml from a windows service provided to me from a .net team, i had to specify the namespace in the query, and the syntax in a little funny:

$ wget -qO – $URL > $TMPFILE
$ xml sel -N x=”http://services.company.com/service/” -t -v “//x:Status” $TMPFILE

the name space is defined after -N, and then used in the xpath after -v with its variable “x”, which is an arbitrary string. perhaps “namespace” would be more readable, like:

$ xml sel -N namespace=”http://services.company.com/service/” -t -v “//namespace:Status” $TMPFILE

the only reason i use a $TMPFILE is because i might want to pull out more than one node from the xml, and this seemed like the clearest way to do it without hitting the service more than once, although i’m no doubt incorrect.

anyway, hope this helps someone trying to use this tool against xml provided by a .net service.

By: coldclimate

coldclimate — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:17:01 +0000

Thats so handy it makes my eyes hurt.