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Old 12-08-2005
Read xml file

Iam new to shell script.
How to read xmlfile using shellscript(without awk),and Store record by record in file .

My xml file:

<root>

<header>
<HeaderData1>header1</HeaderData1>
<HeaderData2>header2</HeaderData2>
</header>

<detailsRecord>
<DetailRecord1>detail1</DetailRecord1>
<DetailRecord2>detail2</DetailRecord2>
<detailsRecord>

<detailsRecord>
<DetailRecord1>detail3</DetailRecord1>
<DetailRecord2>detail4</DetailRecord2>

<detailsRecord>

<trailer>
<trailer>trailer1</trailer>
</trailer>

</root>







Thanks Lot.
# 2  
Old 12-09-2005
You can uses PERL or PHP...... works great.

Neo
# 3  
Old 12-12-2005
What are records for you ? All the data that appear between the tags ?

If it is, this sed will do it.

Code:
sed -n -e 's_.*>\(.*\)<.*_\1_p' input.xml > record.txt

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