Ok, new problem, ive got the following text file:

    <JDBCDataSource JNDIName="jdbc/rDB"
        Name="" PoolName="Othername"   Targets="myserver"/>
    <JDBCConnectionPool CapacityIncrement="2"
        DriverName="net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver"
        InitialCapacity="4" MaxCapacity="20" Name="Othername"
        PasswordEncrypted="" Properties="user="
        Targets="myserver" TestConnectionsOnRelease="false" URL=""/>
    <JDBCDataSource JNDIName="jdbc/FirstDataBankDB" Name="fdbDataSource"
        PoolName="Othernamel" Targets="myserver"/>

<JDBCConnectionPool CapacityIncrement="5"
        DriverName="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver" InitialCapacity="5"
        MaxCapacity="35" Name="Othername"
        PasswordEncrypted=""
        PreparedStatementCacheSize="25"
        Properties=;dll=ocijdbc8;protocol=thin"
        RefreshMinutes="10" Targets="myserver"
        TestConnectionsOnRelease="false" TestConnectionsOnReserve="true"
        TestTableName="dual" URL=""/>

    <JDBCDataSource JNDIName="" 
        Name="ThisName"
        PoolName="l" RowPrefetchEnabled="true"
        RowPrefetchSize="100" Targets="myserver"
        CapacityIncrement="2"
        DriverName="net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver"
        InitialCapacity="4" MaxCapacity="20" Name=""
        PasswordEncrypted="" Properties="user"
        Targets="myserver" TestConnectionsOnRelease="false" URL=""/>

    <JDBCDataSource JNDIName="jdbc/rDB"
        Name="" PoolName="Othername"   Targets="myserver"/>
    <JDBCConnectionPool CapacityIncrement="2"
        DriverName="net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver"
        InitialCapacity="4" MaxCapacity="20" Name="Othername"
        PasswordEncrypted="" Properties="user="
        Targets="myserver" TestConnectionsOnRelease="false" URL=""/>
    <JDBCDataSource JNDIName="jdbc/FirstDataBankDB" Name="fdbDataSource"
        PoolName="Othernamel" Targets="myserver"/>
</Domain>

Try this:

tr '\n' '_' < file | tr '>' '\n'|sed '/Name="ThisName"/d'| tr '\n' '>'| tr '_' '\n'

awk '/ThisName/{next}1' ORS="\n\n" RS=  FS="\n" file

Franklin52,

Neither solution seems to work, the AWK solution actually returns nothing.

ArterialTool, you really should consider using an XSL aware tool such as xsltproc for this type of work.

For example here is how you can use xsltproc to solve your original question

$ var=`xsltproc -param which "'min-pool-size'" file.xsl file.xml`
$ echo $var
2
$

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">

    <!-- pass in as -param which "'value'"  -->
   <xsl;param name=which" />

    <xsl:output method="text'/>

   <xsl:template match="/">
      <xsl:apply-templates/>
   </xsl:template>

   <!-- output nodes that match -->
   <xsl:template match="*" priority="1">
      <xsl:if test="name(.)=$which">
        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
      </xsl:if>
   </xsl:template>

   <!-- eat all other output -->
   <xsl:template match="*|text()" priority="0"/>

</xsl:stylesheet>

I think your actually getting the opposite of what I am trying to get. I came up with this solution that seems to work:

cat file | awk '{printf("%s", $0); if ( $0 ~ /.*\/>/ ) {printf("\n");}}' | grep ThisName | tr -d '\n'

Sorry, I misread the question but this should get the part you have colored:

awk '/ThisName/' ORS="\n\n" RS=  FS="\n" file