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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Extract only required elements from XML. Post 302603153 by rangarasan on Wednesday 29th of February 2012 08:04:52 AM
Old 02-29-2012
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Originally Posted by chetan.c
Hi Ranga,
Yes i used AWK instead of nawk.
But still the output is entire file.

I want to search the tag (<version> ) and pick up data till its closing tag(</version>).
The xml does not always start with request tag.Its random and not structured in the sense that there are also blank spaces in it.

Thanks.

---------- Post updated at 07:53 AM ---------- Previous update was at 07:26 AM ----------

Hi All,

Any thoughts on the above problem?

Thanks.
Then, provide us the exact input and expected output which will full fill your requirement.
 

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xmlindent(1)															      xmlindent(1)

NAME
xmlindent - XML stream reformatter SYNTAX
xmlindent [-o output file] [-i indent level] [-l max columns] [-n newline position] [-t] [-c] [-f] [-w] [-h] [-v] DESCRIPTION
XML Indent is a XML stream reformatter written in ANSI C. It is analogous to GNU indent. OPTIONS
-o output file Write indented XML to output file -i indent level Indent each level indent level spaces deeper -l max columns Wrap lines longer than max columns -t Use tabs instead of spaces -nas Suppress newline after start-tag -nae Suppress newline after end-tag -nbs Suppress newline before start-tag -nbe Suppress newline before end-tag -f Force newline on elements without children -w Overwrite original file -v Show version -h Show command line help AUTHORS
Pekka Enberg <penberg@iki.fi> Thomas Fischer <th.fischer@gmx.net> (man page) SEE ALSO
indent(1) Thomas Fischer 0.2.17 xmlindent(1)
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