Hi,

Need a script to parse the following xml file content

<tag1 Name="val1">
<abc Name="key"/>
<abc Name="pass">*********</abc>
</tag1>
<tag2 Name="Core">
<Host Name="a.b.c">
<tag1 Name="abc">
<abc Name="ac">None</abc>
<abc Name="as">None</abc>
<tag1 Name="pkg">
<tag1 Name="one">
<tag1 Name="two">
<abc Name="Version">1.3</abc >
<abc Name="Status">installed</abc >
<abc Name="InstalledName">two</abc >
</tag1 >
</tag1 >
</tag1 >
<abc Name="SystemType">SunOS</abc >
</tag1 >
</Host>
</tag2>


I can have multiple entries of Host tag so i need to search for a host with a given value and then get the attribute "ac" for a tag "abc" for the given Host

Thanks in advance.

Mavericc

Try this:

awk -F '[<>]+' '
        /Host Name="a.b.c"/ { found=1 }
        found && /Name="ac"/ { print $3; found=0 }
' inputfile

Thanks...

It works if the "a.b.c" is hardcoded. How to go about if I were to pass it as argument.

Tried storing it in a variable and passed. But fails

Mavericc.

Unfortunately this script does not work on Solaris.
The "&&" seems to be the culprit, as removing this stops throwing compilation error

Any help would be of much help.

Mavericc

Use /usr/xpg4/bin/awk on Solaris.

Regards