24 09 | 2013

Working with XML using standard Unix tools

Written by Tanguy

Classified in : Homepage, Debian, Command line, To remember

Like it or not, XML has been used everywhere, even in cases where text-based formats would have been sufficient. Unfortunately, standard tools such as grep, sed or awk are not really adapted to work with XML. Let us take the following example:

<chapter
    xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0">
    <title>The Debian distribution</title>

    <para>Debian is a free operating system, describing itself as “the
    universal operating system”. It is mostly known as a GNU/Linux
    distribution, but it also exist in other variants such as GNU/Hurd
    and GNU/kFreeBSD…</para>
</chapter>

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Tags : XML, Unix, standard, tool, line, sed, grep, awk, cut, XMLStarlet, xml2, PYX, SGML 2 comments

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