Hi ppl out there...

Can anyone help me with the shell script to extract data from an xml file.

My xml file looks like :

- <servlet>
<servlet-name>FrontServlet</servlet-name>
<display-name>FrontServlet</display-name>
<servlet-class>com.americanexpress.util.frontservlet.FrontServlet</servlet-class>
- <init-param>
<param-name>configurator</param-name>
<param-value>XercesConfigurator</param-value>
</init-param>
- <init-param>
<param-name>configFile</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/ssofrontservletconfig.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>-1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

I need to check whether the <param-name> is configFile and if it is , i have to extract the data in the <param-value> tag.

To extract the data from the <param-value> , i have the following code snippet.

/<param-value>/
{
stp1=index($0,">")+1;
newstr1=substr($0,stp1);
etp1=index(newstr1,"</param-value>")-1;
value=substr(newstr1,0,etp1);
}

Please help!

Use nawk on Solaris.

wow radoulov!....this is perfect!
thankx a million

Please try this.....