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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Converting XML to CSV Post 303038661 by SDohmen on Tuesday 10th of September 2019 02:45:35 PM
Old 09-10-2019
Quote:
Originally Posted by stomp
Hi SDohmen,

some additional bits of Knowledge about XPath will lead you forward towards your solution. Especially try to get information about how to figure out "parent nodes" of your target nodes.

One possible algorithm is to not iterate over the different orders(idpurchaseorder), but iterate over the different products(idproduct) and get the parent node(idpurchaseorder) from there.

Regards,
stomp.

P. S.: @Mod or @SDohmen: please fix the typo in the xml above: <name>Productname/name>

P. P. S.: I did not know the solution before the question was asked, and - according to Neos request - I will not take the fun and potential for growth from the poster to figuring it out for his-/herself. (The solution is about the same in size as the current shown attempts).

P. P. P. S: +1 Point for SDohmen using the right tool for the right task. ;-)

Thank you for the comment. I edited the text to have the xml correctly displayed.


I think i know what you mean by selecting the subnodes first but i have no clue how to get the rest filled in.



When i change the line to the one below:
Code:
xmlstarlet sel -t -m "/searchresults/data" -v "products/idproduct" -o " ; " -v idpurchaseorder -n purchaseorders.xml

i am getting the text as above except switched around so that was not what you mean i guess.


Do you have any more clues what to look for?




i did search around some more and found the link below:
Code:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53550425/extracting-xml-child-node-values-based-on-a-parent

This looks a bit like it but i am not sure if that is the correct direction.
 

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