Hi folks,

I'm a bit of a novice at this but here goes. I want to read in nodes from an XML file, and map the path to each.

eg the file is structured

<node><nodename>.</nodename>
<node><nodename>topnode</nodename>
<node><nodename>subnode1</nodename></node>
<node><nodename>subnode2</nodename></node>
</node>
</node>

and i want my output to be something along the lines of

.
./topnode
./topnode/subnode1
./topnode/subnode2

The XML files I am working with are 5-15 thousand lines long, and have many layers as above. I am able to get the nodes and so forth using SED and GREP without issue, but mapping them is a whole other challenge.

Any one any ideas?

thanks in advance,
mark

Traditional Unix tools are not particularly good at this. If the file is monotonously structured you can get lucky but you're probably better off in the long run if you learn some basic XSLT or similar. This should be quite natural in that formalism (for perverse values of "natural"; it's a horrible formalism, as such).