Thanks for the reply, but that does not work. The script that you provided just removes the <> from the line and displays
property name="agent" value="/var/tmp/root/eclipse" /
as output.
-Adi
How were you testing it? if you were using echo to echo it and pipe it into awk, were you using double quotes round the whole string? That won't work. Use single quotes:
If you're testing some other way, then I'd be curious what your version of awk is. Works for me with gnu awk 4.0; output from above is
Hey,
I need to parse the following XML to just grab the Customer ID.
Is there any RegEx that can achieve this ?
So in this example, the script just return 0000109654, as the output.
Even if it involves awk, sed please let me know.
************
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have to make an script according to these:
- I have couples of files like:
xxxxxxxxxxxxx.csv
xxxxxxxxxxxxx_desc.xml
- every xml file has diferent fields, but keeps this format:
........
<defaultName>2011-02-25T16:43:43.582Z</defaultName>
........... (2 Replies)
I have a xml file in where I need to parse only a particular tag and print the output in the shell script.
Here is the tag info in the xml file
<dp:file> This is dp file output </dp:file>
Output should be printed as
This is dp file output.
Please help.Thank you. (5 Replies)
Hi All,
I need a help on inserting a XML tag.
Actual input
<var>
<nam>abcd</nam>
<a1>.</a1>
</var>
if tag <a1>.</a1> is getting missed in XML like below
<var>
<nam>abcd</nam>
</var>
i need to insert wherever it is missed after <nam> tag and before </var> tag.
Could anyone... (3 Replies)
Hi Guys
Here is my Input :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xn:MeContext id="01736">
<xn:VsDataContainer id="01736">
<xn:attributes>
<xn:vsDataType>vsDataMeContext</xn:vsDataType>
... (12 Replies)
I want to basically do the below thing. Suppose there is a tag called object1. I want to display an output for all similar tag values under heading of Object 1 and the count of the xmls. Please help
File:
<xml><object1>house</object1><object2>child</object2>... (9 Replies)
Greetings all,
I have an XML file that is being generated from my application, here is a sample of the first tag (That I am trying to remove and display in a list..)
Example-
<tag one= "data" data="1234" updateTime="1300">
<tag one= "data1" data="1234" updateTime="1300">
<tag... (5 Replies)
Hi Forum.
I have an XML file with the following requirement to move the <AdditionalAccountHolders> tag and its content right after the <accountHolderName> tag within the same file but I'm not sure how to accomplish this through a Unix script.
Any feedback will be greatly appreciated.
... (19 Replies)
Hello,
I want to parse the contents of a multiline html tag
ex:
<html>
<body>
<p>some other text</p>
<div>
<p class="margin-bottom-0">
text1
<br>
text2
<br>
<br>
text3
</p>
</div>
</body> (15 Replies)
Discussion started by: SorcRR
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htmlspecialchars_decode
HTMLSPECIALCHARS_DECODE(3) 1 HTMLSPECIALCHARS_DECODE(3)htmlspecialchars_decode - Convert special HTML entities back to charactersSYNOPSIS
string htmlspecialchars_decode (string $string, [int $flags = ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401])
DESCRIPTION
This function is the opposite of htmlspecialchars(3). It converts special HTML entities back to characters.
The converted entities are: &, " (when ENT_NOQUOTES is not set), ' (when ENT_QUOTES is set), < and >.
PARAMETERS
o $string
- The string to decode.
o $flags
- A bitmask of one or more of the following flags, which specify how to handle quotes and which document type to use. The default
is ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401.
Available $flags constants
+--------------+---------------------------------------------------+
|Constant Name | |
| | |
| | Description |
| | |
+--------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| | |
| ENT_COMPAT | |
| | |
| | Will convert double-quotes and leave single- |
| | quotes alone. |
| | |
| | |
| ENT_QUOTES | |
| | |
| | Will convert both double and single quotes. |
| | |
| | |
|ENT_NOQUOTES | |
| | |
| | Will leave both double and single quotes uncon- |
| | verted. |
| | |
| | |
| ENT_HTML401 | |
| | |
| | Handle code as HTML 4.01. |
| | |
| | |
| ENT_XML1 | |
| | |
| | Handle code as XML 1. |
| | |
| | |
| ENT_XHTML | |
| | |
| | Handle code as XHTML. |
| | |
| | |
| ENT_HTML5 | |
| | |
| | Handle code as HTML 5. |
| | |
+--------------+---------------------------------------------------+
RETURN VALUES
Returns the decoded string.
CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
|Version | |
| | |
| | Description |
| | |
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 5.4.0 | |
| | |
| | The constants ENT_HTML401, ENT_XML1, ENT_XHTML |
| | and ENT_HTML5 were added. |
| | |
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
EXAMPLES
Example #1
A htmlspecialchars_decode(3) example
<?php
$str = "<p>this -> "</p>
";
echo htmlspecialchars_decode($str);
// note that here the quotes aren't converted
echo htmlspecialchars_decode($str, ENT_NOQUOTES);
?>
The above example will output:
<p>this -> "</p>
<p>this -> "</p>
SEE ALSO htmlspecialchars(3), html_entity_decode(3), get_html_translation_table(3).
PHP Documentation Group HTMLSPECIALCHARS_DECODE(3)