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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How can I extract XML block around matching search string? Post 302966491 by Don Cragun on Friday 12th of February 2016 04:09:40 PM
Old 02-12-2016
You haven't said what operating system or shell you're using, but for things like this I usually use awk. This seems to do what you want:
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
strear='myapp1-ear'

awk -v app_name="$strear" '
/<application>/	{
	cnt = copy = 0
}
$0 ~ "<application-name>" app_name "</application-name>" {
	copy = 1
}
{	line[++cnt] = $0
}
/<\/application>/ {
	if(copy) {
		copy = 0
		for(i = 1; i <= cnt; i++)
			print line[i]
	}
}' xmlfile.xml

If you're running this on a Solaris/SunOS system, change awk to /usr/xpg4/bin/awk or nawk.
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NAME
XML::SAX::Exception - Exception classes for XML::SAX SYNOPSIS
throw XML::SAX::Exception::NotSupported( Message => "The foo feature is not supported", ); DESCRIPTION
This module is the base class for all SAX Exceptions, those defined in the spec as well as those that one may create for one's own SAX errors. There are three subclasses included, corresponding to those of the SAX spec: XML::SAX::Exception::NotSupported XML::SAX::Exception::NotRecognized XML::SAX::Exception::Parse Use them wherever you want, and as much as possible when you encounter such errors. SAX is meant to use exceptions as much as possible to flag problems. CREATING NEW EXCEPTION CLASSES
All you need to do to create a new exception class is: @XML::SAX::Exception::MyException::ISA = ('XML::SAX::Exception') The given package doesn't need to exist, it'll behave correctly this way. If your exception refines an existing exception class, then you may also inherit from that instead of from the base class. THROWING EXCEPTIONS
This is as simple as exemplified in the SYNOPSIS. In fact, there's nothing more to know. All you have to do is: throw XML::SAX::Exception::MyException( Message => 'Something went wrong' ); and voila, you've thrown an exception which can be caught in an eval block. perl v5.12.1 2010-07-05 XML::SAX::Exception(3)
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