Shell Programming and Scripting

<DOC id="ID-NAME" type="story" >
<HEADLINE>
Relative Size Capital 
</HEADLINE>
<DATELINE>
Los , Monday 
</DATELINE>
<TEXT>
<P>
The first para consists of this format.have fully
</P>
<P>
Meanwhile, the rest of the story are in the XML format as in the present document format. 
</P>
</TEXT>
</DOC>

Relative Size Capital 
Los , Monday 
The first para consists of this format.have fully
Meanwhile, the rest of the story are in the XML format as in the present document format.

awk '($0 !~ /</ && $0 !~ />/)' Input_file

Relative Size Capital
Los , Monday
The first para consists of this format.have fully
Meanwhile, the rest of the story are in the XML format as in the present document format.

awk '{gsub(/<[^>]*>/, "")}$0!=""' INPUT.TXT

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# @(#) s1	Demonstrate plain-text transformation of URLs.

# Utility functions: print-as-echo, print-line-with-visual-space, debug.
# export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"
LC_ALL=C ; LANG=C ; export LC_ALL LANG
pe() { for _i;do printf "%s" "$_i";done; printf "\n"; }
pl() { pe;pe "-----" ;pe "$*"; }
db() { ( printf " db, ";for _i;do printf "%s" "$_i";done;printf "\n" ) >&2 ; }
db() { : ; }
C=$HOME/bin/context && [ -f $C ] && $C awk sed grep elinks

FILE=${1-data2}

pl " Input data file $FILE:"
cat $FILE

pl " Results, first awk:"
awk '($0 !~ /</ && $0 !~ />/)' $FILE

pl " Results, second awk:"
awk '{gsub(/<[^>]*>/, "")}$0!=""' $FILE

pl " Results, links (or elinks):"
links -dump $FILE

pl " Results, elinks (with added paragraph after headline):"
sed 's/<\/HEADLINE>/& <p>/' $FILE  > f1
elinks -dump f1

pl " Results, elinks (with added paragraph after headline, delete empy lines):"
sed 's/<\/HEADLINE>/& <p>/' $FILE  > f1
elinks -dump f1 |
grep -v '^[[:space:]]*$'

exit 0

$ ./s1

Environment: LC_ALL = C, LANG = C
(Versions displayed with local utility "version")
OS, ker|rel, machine: Linux, 2.6.26-2-amd64, x86_64
Distribution        : Debian 5.0.8 (lenny, workstation) 
bash GNU bash 3.2.39
awk GNU Awk 3.1.5
sed GNU sed version 4.1.5
grep GNU grep 2.5.3
ELinks 0.11.4 (built on Sep 20 2008 16:40:51)

-----
 Input data file data2:
<DOC id="ID-NAME" type="story" > <HEADLINE> Relative Size Capital
</HEADLINE> <DATELINE> Los , Monday </DATELINE> <TEXT> <P> The first
para consists of this format.have fully </P> <P> Meanwhile, the rest
of the story are in the XML format as in the present document format.
</P> </TEXT> </DOC>

-----
 Results, first awk:
of the story are in the XML format as in the present document format.

-----
 Results, second awk:
  Relative Size Capital
  Los , Monday    The first
para consists of this format.have fully   Meanwhile, the rest
of the story are in the XML format as in the present document format.
  

-----
 Results, links (or elinks):
   Relative Size Capital Los , Monday

   The first para consists of this format.have fully

   Meanwhile, the rest of the story are in the XML format as in the present
   document format.

-----
 Results, elinks (with added paragraph after headline):
   Relative Size Capital

   Los , Monday

   The first para consists of this format.have fully

   Meanwhile, the rest of the story are in the XML format as in the present
   document format.

-----
 Results, elinks (with added paragraph after headline, delete empy lines):
   Relative Size Capital
   Los , Monday
   The first para consists of this format.have fully
   Meanwhile, the rest of the story are in the XML format as in the present
   document format.