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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to check empty string in an XML tag? Post 302892166 by Akshay Hegde on Tuesday 11th of March 2014 09:46:11 AM
Old 03-11-2014
Try something like :

Code:
$ awk -F'[<>]' '!$3 || $3!~/[[:alnum:]]/{print $0,"<-- empty"}'  <<test 
<abc></abc>
<cde>something</cde>
<def>   </def>
<fge> testeer<fge>
test

<abc></abc> <-- empty
<def>   </def> <-- empty

---------- Post updated at 08:16 PM ---------- Previous update was at 08:11 PM ----------

OR

Code:
$ awk '/<.*>([[:space:]]+|)<\/.*>/{ print $0, "<-- empty"}'  <<test 
<abc></abc>
<cde>something</cde>
<def>   </def>
<fge> testeer<fge>
test

<abc></abc> <-- empty
<def>   </def> <-- empty

 

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XML::Stream::Node(3)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				      XML::Stream::Node(3)

NAME
XML::Stream::Node - Functions to make building and parsing the tree easier to work with. SYNOPSIS
Just a collection of functions that do not need to be in memory if you choose one of the other methods of data storage. This creates a hierarchy of Perl objects and provides various methods to manipulate the structure of the tree. It is much like the C library libxml. FORMAT
The result of parsing: <foo><head id="a">Hello <em>there</em></head><bar>Howdy<ref/></bar>do</foo> would be: [ tag: foo att: {} children: [ tag: head att: {id=>"a"} children: [ tag: "__xmlstream__:node:cdata" children: "Hello " ] [ tag: em children: [ tag: "__xmlstream__:node:cdata" children: "there" ] ] ] [ tag: bar children: [ tag: "__xmlstream__:node:cdata" children: "Howdy " ] [ tag: ref ] ] [ tag: "__xmlstream__:node:cdata" children: "do" ] ] METHODS
new() - creates a new node. If you specify tag, then the root new(tag) tag is set. If you specify data, then cdata is added new(tag,cdata) to the node as well. Returns the created node. get_tag() - returns the root tag of the node. set_tag(tag) - set the root tag of the node to tag. add_child(node) - adds the specified node as a child to the current add_child(tag) node, or creates a new node with the specified tag add_child(tag,cdata) as the root node. Returns the node added. remove_child(node) - removes the child node from the current node. remove_cdata() - removes all of the cdata children from the current node. add_cdata(string) - adds the string as cdata onto the current nodes child list. get_cdata() - returns all of the cdata children concatenated together into one string. get_attrib(attrib) - returns the value of the attrib if it is valid, or returns undef is attrib is not a real attribute. put_attrib(hash) - for each key/value pair specified, create an attribute in the node. remove_attrib(attrib) - remove the specified attribute from the node. add_raw_xml(string,[string,...]) - directly add a string into the XML packet as the last child, with no translation. get_raw_xml() - return all of the XML in a single string, undef if there is no raw XML to include. remove_raw_xml() - remove all raw XML strings. children() - return all of the children of the node in a list. attrib() - returns a hash containing all of the attributes on this node. copy() - return a recursive copy of the node. XPath(path) - run XML::Stream::XPath on this node. XPathCheck(path) - run XML::Stream::XPath on this node and return 1 or 0 to see if it matches or not. GetXML() - return the node in XML string form. AUTHOR
By Ryan Eatmon in June 2002 for http://jabber.org/ Currently maintained by Darian Anthony Patrick. COPYRIGHT
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.12.1 2010-01-08 XML::Stream::Node(3)
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