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Commands tagged xml

Terminal - Commands tagged xml - 15 results

echo '<foo><bar/></foo>' | xmllint --format -

2012-01-12 09:39:56

User: akavel

Functions: echo

Tags: pipe tidy xml indent xmllint format

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Prettify XML in pipeline

xmllint2 comes with GNU libxml2 library.

(based on: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Format_your_xml_document_using_xmllint)

xpath () { xmllint --format --shell "$2" <<< "cat $1" | sed '/^\/ >/d' }

2011-12-20 08:34:11

User: sharfah

Functions: sed

Tags: xml xmllint xpath

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extract element of xml

This function uses xmllint to evaluate xpaths.

Usage: xpath /path/to/element XMLfile

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xml2 < file.xml | grep ^/path/to/element | cut -f2- -d=

2011-12-19 18:51:17

User: bandie91

Functions: cut grep

Tags: cut xml

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extract element of xml

poor man's xml parser :)

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diffxml() { diff -wb <(xmllint --format "$1") <(xmllint --format "$2"); }

2011-10-06 07:36:13

User: sharfah

Functions: diff

Tags: diff xml xmllint

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Diff XML files

Diffs two xml files by formatting them first using xmllint and then invoking diff.

Usage: diffxml XMLFile1 XMLFile2

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xpath () { xmllint --format --shell "$2" <<< "cat $1" | sed '/^\/ >/d' }

2011-10-05 07:45:16

User: sharfah

Functions: sed

Tags: function xml xmllint xpath

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xpath function

This function uses xmllint to evaluate xpaths.

Usage: xpath /some/xpath XMLfile

awk "/<xsd:annotation>/{h=1};!h;/<\/xsd:annotation>/{h=0}" annotatedSchema.xsd

2011-07-15 07:17:17

User: 2chg

Functions: awk

Tags: xml filter

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Remove annotation- (or other own-lined) tags from an XML document

Removes all lines between the lines containing "" and "", including these lines itself

Backdrop:

Sometimes when working with XML files without an graphical editor, large comment-/annotation-blocks taper the readability to walk through the file. I like to create a copy of such documents without these annotations. As the documentation itself is in documentation tags inside the annotation tags an therefore graphical editors tend to put the annotation tags in their own lines, this command removes all documentations within annotation-tags.

find -type f -name "*.xml" -exec xmllint --noout {} \;

2011-01-25 18:26:57

User: bradbeattie

Functions: find

Tags: xml xmllint

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Validate all XML files in the current directory and below

If everything validates, there's no output. Can be handy to run on a cron job set up to email output.

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atomtitles () { curl --silent $1 | xmlstarlet sel -N atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" -t -m /atom:feed/atom:entry -v atom:title -n}

2010-12-15 11:03:31

User: Seebi

Tags: curl xml xmlstarlet atom feed

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Get the headlines of an atom feed

this simply curls the feed and runs a xpath query on it ...

wget -O - 'https://USERNAMEHERE:PASSWORDHERE@mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom' --no-check-certificate

2010-09-26 14:47:13

User: PLA

Functions: wget

Tags: Linux wget xml gmail atom

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Using wget to receive an XML atom feed of your Gmail inbox

I use this command in my Conky script to display the number of messages in my Gmail inbox and to list the from: and subject: fields.

curl -L -s `curl -s [http://podcast.com/show.rss]` | xmlstarlet sel -t -m "//enclosure[1]" -v "@url" -n | head -n 1` | ssh -t [user]@[host] "mpg123 -"

2010-07-31 00:17:47

User: denzuko

Functions: head ssh

Tags: streaming curl mp3 xml xmlstarlet rss mpg321 podcast xpath xquery

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Play a podcast via XPath and mpg123

Gets the latest podcast show from from your favorite Podcast. Uses curl and xmlstarlet.

Make sure you change out the items between brackets.

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curl -L -s `curl -s http://www.2600.com/oth-broadband.xml` | xmlstarlet sel -t -m "//enclosure[1]" -v "@url" -n | head -n 1` | ssh -t [user]@[host] "mpg123 -"

2010-07-30 23:20:50

User: denzuko

Functions: head ssh

Tags: ssh streaming curl mp3 http radio xml xmlstarlet ssh tunnel mpg321 podcast xpath xquery 2600

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Play 2600 off the hook over ssh

Ever wanted to stream your favorite podcast across the network, well now you can.

This command will parse the iTunes enabled podcast and stream the latest episode across the network through ssh encryption.

curl -u <username> http://app.boxee.tv/api/get_queue | xml2 | grep /boxeefeed/message/description | awk -F= '{print $2}'

2010-01-20 16:17:19

User: Strawp

Functions: awk grep

Tags: curl xml boxee

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List your Boxee queue

Might be able to do it in less steps with xmlstarlet, although whether that would end up being shorter overall I don't know - xmlstarlet syntax confuses the heck out of me.

Prompts for your password, or if you're a bit mental you can add your password into the command itself in the format "-u user:password".

xmlproc_parse.python-xml &>/dev/null <FILE> || exit 1

2009-12-11 17:30:03

User: sputnick

Functions: exit

Tags: python xml

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validate xml in a shell script.

For debian likes, that's in python-xml package.

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grep -Eho '<[a-ZA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_-:]*' * | sort -u | cut -c2-

2009-08-05 21:54:29

User: inkel

Functions: cut grep sort

Tags: sort grep cut xml

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Lists unambigously names of all xml elements used in files in current directory

This one will work a little better, the regular expressions it is not 100% accurate for XML parsing but it will suffice any XML valid document for sure.

sed -n 's/.*<foo>$[^<]*$<\/foo>.*/\1/p'

2009-07-23 07:59:30

User: recursiverse

Functions: sed

Tags: Shell programming sed xml

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Simple XML tag extract with sed

Limited, but useful construct to extract text embedded in XML tags. This will only work if bar is all on one line.

If nobody posts an alternative for the multiline sed version, I'll figure it out later...

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