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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers delete newline character between html tags Post 302170710 by cfajohnson on Tuesday 26th of February 2008 01:51:47 PM
Old 02-26-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by girish312
Hi,
I have learned some of the Unix commands a way back and not sure of how to code them when needed in certain way, especially sed command. Here is my situation. I have an xml file with several tags. most of the tags start on the same line and end on the same line. However, data for some tags span into mulitple lines. I would like to bring back that particular tag into one line removing all new lines between them.

Here is an example:
<Report>
<Project>
<Proj_Name>ABC Enhancement</Proj_Name>
<Proj_Type>Mechanical</Proj_Type>
<Proj_Description>Project started on 01/03/2006.
However, it is running behind due to unavailable
Resources</Proj_Description>
<Proj_Hours>123.00</Proj_Hours.
</Project>
<Report>

The above is a sample data. I am looking to remove new line characters only from the lines that spans into multiple lines. Herea is how it should appear after removing new lines.

<Report>
<Project>
<Proj_Name>ABC Enhancement</Proj_Name>
<Proj_Type>Mechanical</Proj_Type>
<Proj_Description>Project started on so and so date.... </Proj_Description>
<Proj_Hours>123.00</Proj_Hours.
</Project>
<Report>

This may need a little tweaking:
Code:
awk '
NR>1 && /^</ { printf "\n" }
{ printf "%s ", $0 }
END { printf "\n" }
' "$FILE"

 

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DOCBOOK2GJOTS(1)					      General Commands Manual						  DOCBOOK2GJOTS(1)

NAME

       docbook2gjots - Convert a DOCBOOK file to gjots format (on stdout)

SYNOPSIS

       docbook2gjots [ DOCBOOK-file ]

DESCRIPTION

       docbook2gjots converts a DOCBOOK XML file into gjots format.

       docbook2gjots uses gawk(1) to perform the conversion.

       <preface>,  <chapter>,  <section>,  <sect1>,  <sect2>,  <sect3> and <sect4> tags are used to define NewEntry and NewFolder boundaries. They
       should definitely have <title> tags.

       This is a quick and dirty hack using gawk(1) and does no formal checking of XML or SGML syntax nor does it  validate  against  the  DOCBOOK
       DTD. Consequently, if the syntax of the file is broken the conversion will probably fail.

       It is intended that a round-trip can be made so that gjots(1) can be used as a tool at all stages of DOCBOOK production - mainly as an out-
       line processor to help the author organise and order the work.  A document may well start its life in gjots(1) as the initial thoughts  are
       marshalled.  As	the  document  forms  up,  it can be converted to DOCBOOK with the following command which automatically adds tags such as
       <?xml...>, <para> etc:

	      gjots2docbook -b file.gjots >file.xml
	      docbook2pdf file.xml

       Or, starting with an existing DOCBOOK file:

	      docbook2gjots file.xml >file.gjots

       In the latter case, the document will already have a lot of DOCBOOK tags so to convert back to docbook, add the -e and -p options:

	      gjots2docbook -b -p -e file.gjots >file.xml
	      docbook2pdf file.xml

AUTHOR

       Written by Bob Hepple <bhepple@freeshell.org>

       http://bhepple.freeshell.org/gjots

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2002 Robert Hepple
       This  is  free software; see the source for copying conditions.	There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR  A  PAR-
       TICULAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO

       gjots(1), gjots2html(1), gjots2docbook(1)

																  DOCBOOK2GJOTS(1)
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