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Old 10-09-2007
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Hi! I'm just new here and don't know much about shell scripting. I just want to ask for help in creating a shell script that will parse a string or value of the status in the xml file. Please sample xml file below. Can you please help me create a simple script to get the value of status? Also it would be better if I can get the values of each parameter from the xml file. I really need it asap. Hope someone can help me. Thanks!


<?xml version="1.0"?><message><cdr version="1.0"><appid>testbed</appid><threadid>6</threadid><origin>node1</origin><date>20071009
</date><time>12:45:36</time><chdate>20071009</chdate><chtime>12:45:43</chtime><status>201</status><type>103</type><calling>644</call
ing><cparty>xxxxxxx</cparty><accnum>xxxxxx</accnum><debirate1>0.0</debirate1><cos>-1</cos><strtbal>0.0</strtbal><freesms>0</
freesms><tuc>0</tuc><fandftype></fandftype></cdr></message>
# 2  
Old 10-09-2007
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Originally Posted by ayhanne
Hi! I'm just new here and don't know much about shell scripting. I just want to ask for help in creating a shell script that will parse a string or value of the status in the xml file. Please sample xml file below. Can you please help me create a simple script to get the value of status? Also it would be better if I can get the values of each parameter from the xml file. I really need it asap. Hope someone can help me. Thanks!


<?xml version="1.0"?><message><cdr version="1.0"><appid>testbed</appid><threadid>6</threadid><origin>node1</origin><date>20071009
</date><time>12:45:36</time><chdate>20071009</chdate><chtime>12:45:43</chtime><status>201</status><type>103</type><calling>644</call
ing><cparty>xxxxxxx</cparty><accnum>xxxxxx</accnum><debirate1>0.0</debirate1><cos>-1</cos><strtbal>0.0</strtbal><freesms>0</
freesms><tuc>0</tuc><fandftype></fandftype></cdr></message>
If you have the whole XML on ONE line (a very simplified non bullet-proof approach) :
nawk -f ay.awk ay.xml
ay.awk:
Code:
BEGIN {
   FS="[><]"
}
{
  for(i=8; i<=NF; i+=2) {
          if ( $i ~ /^[/]/ ) continue
          printf("name->[%s] value->[%s]\n", $i, $(i+1))
  }
}

If you have your XML in a different format, pls post the sample using vB-code tags.
# 3  
Old 10-10-2007
I dont understand ur requirement..

But hope this mighthelp u out!!!!!!!!!!!


sed 's/\(<Pattern>\)\(.*\)\(</Pattern>\)/\2/' <input_xml-file>

Regards,
aajan
# 4  
Old 10-10-2007
Parse a string in XML file using shell script

Thanks for the reply. I tried sed but I got error sed: command garbled: s/\(<status>\)\(.*\)\(</status>\)/\2/. I just need to get the values of all the status from the xml file like <status>201</status> because it generates different values. The xml file is huge,filesize is approx 5Mb. Please see sample portion of xml file below which is just repeated with different values. I'm really having problem getting the values of status because it's a huge file and the format is not organized sometimes in a line you can have several occurance of status. I can't change the format since it's a cdr. It would be better if I will also get the values of other parameters like appid, threadid, date, chdate, etc. I do hope you were able to understand me. Thanks again!


<?xml version="1.0"?><message><cdr version="1.0"><appid>testbed</appid><threadid>6</threadid><origin>node1</origin><date>20071009
</date><time>12:45:36</time><chdate>20071009</chdate><chtime>12:45:43</chtime><status>201</status><type>103</type><calling>644</call
ing><cparty>xxxxxxx</cparty><accnum>xxxxxx</accnum><debirate1>0.0</debirate1><cos>-1</cos><strtbal>0.0</strtbal><freesms>0</
freesms><tuc>0</tuc><fandftype></fandftype></cdr></message>
# 5  
Old 10-10-2007
wil the file have only one <status> tag?
# 6  
Old 10-10-2007
Parse a string in XML file using shell script

There are many status tags in the file with different values like 201, 153, 28 etc.
# 7  
Old 10-10-2007
Try This Out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But i dont know how far it wil work????Smilie

awk '/<status>/,/<\/status>/' filename | sed 's/\(.*\)\(<status>\)\(.*\)\(<\/status>\)\(.*\)/\3/'


Regards,
aajan
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