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Old 12-23-2012
XML: parsing of the Google contacts XML file

I am trying to parse the XML Google contact file using tools like xmllint and I even dived into the XSL Style Sheets using xsltproc but I get nowhere.

I can not supply any sample file as it contains private data but you can download your own contacts using this script:
Code:
#!/bin/sh

# imports Google Contacts
# imported data is stored in contacts.xml file (current directory)

# You will need curl and xmllint tools

LOGIN="your.login@gmail.com"
PASSW="your_passw"

AUTH=$(curl --silent https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin \
-d Email=$LOGIN \
-d Passwd=$PASSW \
-d accountType=GOOGLE \
-d service=cp \
-d Gdata-version=3.0 | grep '^Auth')

curl --silent -o /tmp/contacts.tmp https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/default/full?max-results=5 \
--header "Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=${AUTH#*=}" \
--header "GData-Version: 3.0" \

# format nicely the Google output
xmllint --format /tmp/contacts.tmp > contacts.xml

I can get the root node:
Code:
$ xmllint --xpath '/' contacts.xml

But it fails when I try the first node below root: <feed>
Code:
$ xmllint --xpath '/feed' contacts.xml 
XPath set is empty

 

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XML::Handler::CanonXMLWriter(3) 			User Contributed Perl Documentation			   XML::Handler::CanonXMLWriter(3)

NAME
XML::Handler::CanonXMLWriter - output XML in canonical XML format SYNOPSIS
use XML::Handler::CanonXMLWriter; $writer = XML::Handler::CanonXMLWriter OPTIONS; $parser->parse(Handler => $writer); DESCRIPTION
"XML::Handler::CanonXMLWriter" is a PerlSAX handler that will return a string or write a stream of canonical XML for an XML instance and it's content. "XML::Handler::CanonXMLWriter" objects hold the options used for writing the XML objects. Options can be supplied when the the object is created, $writer = new XML::Handler::CanonXMLWriter PrintComments => 1; or modified at any time before calling the parser's `"parse()"' method: $writer->{PrintComments} = 0; OPTIONS
IOHandle IOHandle contains a handle for writing the canonical XML to. If an IOHandle is not provided, the canonical XML string will be returned from `"parse()"'. PrintComments By default comments are not written to the output. Setting comment to a true value will include comments in the output. AUTHOR
Ken MacLeod, ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us SEE ALSO
perl(1), PerlSAX James Clark's Canonical XML definition <http://www.jclark.com/xml/canonxml.html> perl v5.8.0 2000-02-22 XML::Handler::CanonXMLWriter(3)
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