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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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NAME
google-sitemapgen -- simple script to automate production of sitemaps for a webserver SYNOPSIS
google-sitemapgen [--testing] [--help] [--config=config.xml] DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the google-sitemapgen command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. google-sitemapgen is a program that automatically produces sitemaps for a webserver, in the Google Sitemap Protocol (GSP). Sitemap files are XML listings of content you make available on your web server. The files can be directly submitted to search engines as hints for the search engine web crawlers as they index your web site. This can result in better coverage of your web content in search engine indices, and less of your bandwidth spent doing it. OPTIONS
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/usr/share/doc/google-sitemapgen/examples/example_config.xml.gz AUTHOR
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