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

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

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.

Sample Output

a
b
body
br
center
div
fieldset
font
form
func:function
func:result
h1
h2
h4
head
html
i
img
input
label
li
link
meta
noscript
option
p
sc
script
select
span
strong
style
table
tbody
td
textarea
th
title
tr
ul
xsl:apply-templates
xsl:attribute
xsl:call-template
xsl:choose
xsl:copy-of
xsl:for-each
xsl:if
xsl:include
xsl:otherwise
xsl:param
xsl:stylesheet
xsl:template
xsl:text
xsl:value-of
xsl:variable
xsl:when
xsl:with-param

By: inkel

2009-08-05 21:54:29

cut grep sort sort grep cut xml

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

This set of commands was very convenient for me when I was preparing some xml files for typesetting a book. I wanted to check what styles I had to prepare but coudn't remember all tags that I used. This one saved me from error-prone browsing of all my files. It should be also useful if one tries to process xml files with xsl, when using own xml application.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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grep -h -o '<[^/!?][^ >]*' * | sort -u | cut -c2-

thebodzio · 2009-06-17 00:22:18 10

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