Hi guys, first post here.

I want to work my way around the WURFL (xml) file and thought AWK would be a good scripting language.

Anyone done this, or used awk for XML parsing?
Or have other suggestions for a scripting language for this?

My interest in WURFL is to interrogate for specific types of device and capabilities.

Thanks.

Provide a sample input and the o/p for the sample input. We will be able to hep then.

OK.
There are around 11,000 devices in the wurfl. Here's an iPhone definition. Let's say I want to:

o Count all unique devices - device id and set of capability name's

<device id="apple_iphone_ver1" user_agent="Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A538a Safari/419.3" fall_back="apple_generic" actual_device_root="true">
<group id="product_info">
<capability name="mobile_browser" value="Safari"/>
<capability name="pointing_method" value="touchscreen"/>
<capability name="model_name" value="iPhone"/>
<capability name="device_os_version" value="1.0"/>
</group>
<group id="display">
<capability name="physical_screen_height" value="74"/>
<capability name="physical_screen_width" value="49"/>
<capability name="max_image_width" value="320"/>
<capability name="resolution_height" value="480"/>
<capability name="resolution_width" value="320"/>
<capability name="max_image_height" value="360"/>
</group>
<group id="object_download">
<capability name="wallpaper_max_height" value="480"/>
<capability name="wallpaper_max_width" value="320"/>
<capability name="wallpaper_preferred_width" value="320"/>
<capability name="wallpaper_preferred_height" value="480"/>
<capability name="video" value="true"/>
</group>
<group id="bearer">
<capability name="wifi" value="true"/>
<capability name="max_data_rate" value="200"/>
</group>
<group id="sound_format">
<capability name="aac" value="true"/>
<capability name="mp3" value="true"/>
</group>
<group id="xhtml_ui">
<capability name="accept_third_party_cookie" value="false"/>
<capability name="xhtml_send_mms_string" value="none"/>
<capability name="xhtml_send_sms_string" value="none"/>
<capability name="xhtml_honors_bgcolor" value="true"/>
<capability name="xhtml_file_upload" value="not_supported"/>
</group>
<group id="pdf">
<capability name="pdf_support" value="true"/>
</group>
<group id="rss">
<capability name="rss_support" value="true"/>
</group>
<group id="playback">
<capability name="playback_acodec_aac" value="lc"/>
<capability name="playback_mp4" value="true"/>
<capability name="playback_3gpp" value="true"/>
<capability name="playback_acodec_amr" value="nb"/>
<capability name="playback_mov" value="true"/>
<capability name="playback_vcodec_mpeg4_sp" value="0"/>
<capability name="playback_3g2" value="true"/>
<capability name="playback_vcodec_h263_0" value="-1"/>
<capability name="playback_vcodec_h264_bp" value="1.2"/>
</group>
<group id="streaming">
<capability name="streaming_acodec_aac" value="lc"/>
<capability name="streaming_real_media" value="none"/>
<capability name="streaming_3gpp" value="true"/>
<capability name="streaming_acodec_amr" value="nb"/>
<capability name="streaming_vcodec_mpeg4_sp" value="0"/>
<capability name="streaming_preferred_protocol" value="none"/>
</group>
<group id="deprecated">
<capability name="video_max_width" value="640"/>
<capability name="has_pointing_device" value="true"/>
<capability name="video_3gpp2" value="true"/>
<capability name="video_max_height" value="480"/>
<capability name="video_3gpp" value="true"/>
<capability name="video_mp4" value="true"/>
<capability name="video_preferred_width" value="320"/>
<capability name="video_preferred_height" value="240"/>
<capability name="video_max_frame_rate" value="30"/>
<capability name="video_wmv" value="false"/>
</group>
</device>

there are also records like the below and I'd like to strip off the sub version.

<device id="apple_iphone_ver1_sub3b48a_dede" user_agent="Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; de-de) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/3B48b Safari/419.3" fall_back="apple_iphone_ver1"/>
<device id="apple_iphone_ver1_sub4a93_dede" user_agent="Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; de-de) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A93 Safari/419.3" fall_back="apple_iphone_ver1"/>
<device id="apple_iphone_ver1_subua_mysterious" user_agent="Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en)" fall_back="apple_iphone_ver1"/>
<device id="apple_iphone_ver1_sub1c28_en" user_agent="Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1C28 Safari/419.3" fall_back="apple_iphone_ver1"/>
<device id="apple_iphone_ver1_sub4a93_en" user_agent="Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A93 Safari/419.3" fall_back="apple_iphone_ver1"/>
<device id="apple_iphone_ver1_sub3a109a_es" user_agent="Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; es) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/3A109a Safari/419.3" fall_back="apple_iphone_ver1"/>
<device id="apple_iphone_ver1_sub3a109a_fr" user_agent="Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; fr) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/3A109a Safari/419.3" fall_back="apple_iphone_ver1"/>
<device id="apple_iphone_ver1_sub3a109a_itit" user_agent="Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; it-it) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/3A109a Safari/419.3" fall_back="apple_iphone_ver1"/>
<device id="apple_iphone_ver1_sub3b48b_nlnl" user_agent="Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; nl-nl) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/3B48b Safari/419.3" fall_back="apple_iphone_ver1"/>
<device id="apple_iphone_ver1_sub3a109a_plpl" user_agent="Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; pl-pl) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/3A109a Safari/419.3" fall_back="apple_iphone_ver1"/>
<device id="apple_iphone_ver1_sub3b48b_ptpt" user_agent="Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; pt-pt) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/3B48b Safari/419.3" fall_back="apple_iphone_ver1"/>


That's it - simple requests right? ;>)