Since HTML is very similar to XML, you may use an xml tool to parse your file.
Since your HTML-File is not fully standards compliant, the parser complains about it and the file has either be adapted by hand to be compliant or to be preprocessed prior to the parsing. The <br> is the problematic element. Compliant would be <br/> with a slash within the tag.
So you can do it with an xmlparser like xmlstarlet in three steps:
1. Make the html file compliant by replacing the br-Tags
2. Get the wanted HTML-Element with xmlstarlet
3. suppress unwanted empty lines and leading whitespace in data / xmlstarlet output
I have a html file called myfile. If I simply put "cat myfile.html" in UNIX, it shows all the html tags like <a href=r/26><img src="http://www>. But I want to extract only text part.
Same problem happens in "type" command in MS-DOS.
I know you can do it by opening it in Internet Explorer,... (4 Replies)
Hai friends
I have a small doubt..
how can we use html tag in shell scripting
code :
echo "<html>"
echo "<body>"
echo " welcome to peace world "
echo "</body>"
echo "</html>"
output displayed like this:
<html>
<body>
welcome to peace world
</body>
</html> (5 Replies)
hi all,
i have a html file something similar to this.
<tr class="evenrow">
<td class="data">added</td><td class="data">xyz@abc.com</td>
<td class="data">filename.sql</td><td class="modifications-data">08/25/2009 07:58:40</td><td class="data">Added TK prof script</td>
</tr>
<tr... (1 Reply)
Hi!
I have a bunch of HTML files, which I want to parse to CSV files. Every page has a table in it, and I need to parse each row into a csv record.
With awk and sed, I managed to put every table row in separate lines. So my file looks like this:
<TR> .... </TR>
<TR> .... </TR>
...One... (1 Reply)
Guys,
I have a little script that I got of the internet and that I use in Squid to block ads.
I used that script with linux but now i have moved my servers to freebsd. I have a step learning curve there but it is fun: Back to the script issue.
The script used to work i with linux but... (15 Replies)
I have an XML tag like this:
<property name="agent" value="/var/tmp/root/eclipse" />
Is there way using awk that i can get the value from the above tag. So the output should be:
/var/tmp/root/eclipse
Help will be appreciated.
Regards,
Adi (6 Replies)
I want to print from <fruits> to </fruits> tag which have <fruit> as mango. Also i want both <fruits> and </fruits> in output. Please help
eg.
<fruits>
<fruit id="111">mango<fruit>
.
another 20 lines
.
</fruits> (3 Replies)
Hi Guys
Here is my Input :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xn:MeContext id="01736">
<xn:VsDataContainer id="01736">
<xn:attributes>
<xn:vsDataType>vsDataMeContext</xn:vsDataType>
... (12 Replies)
I want to clean a html file.
I try to remove the script part in the html and remove the rest of tags and empty lines.
The code I try to use is the following:
sed '/<script/,/<\/script>/d' webpage.html | sed -e 's/<*>//g' | sed '/^\s*$/d' > output.txt
However, in this method, I can not... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: YuhuiFeng
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
xmlstarlet
XMLSTARLET(1) xmlstarlet Manual XMLSTARLET(1)NAME
xmlstarlet - command line XML/XSLT toolkit
SYNOPSIS
xmlstarlet [<options>] [<command>] [<cmd-options>]
INTRODUCTION
XMLStarlet is a set of command line utilities (tools) which can be used to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and files us-
ing simple set of shell commands in similar way it is done for plain text files using UNIX grep, sed, awk, diff, patch, join, etc commands.
This set of command line utilities can be used by those who deal with many XML documents on UNIX shell command prompt as well as for auto-
mated XML processing with shell scripts.
OPTIONS --version
Display the version of xmlstarlet.
--help Display help.
COMMANDS
Type: xmlstarlet <command> --help <ENTER> for command help
Available commands include:
ed (or edit)
Edit/update XML document(s).
sel (or select)
Select data or query XML document(s) (XPATH, etc).
tr (or transform)
Transform XML documents(s) using XSLT.
val (or validate)
Validate XML document(s) (well-formed/DTD/XSD/RelaxNG).
fo (or format)
Format XML document(s).
el (or elements)
Display element structure of XML document.
c14n (or canonic)
XML canonicalization.
ls (or list)
List directory as XML.
esc (or escape)
Escape special XML characters.
unesc (or unescape)
Unescape special XML characters.
pyx (or xmln)
Convert XML into PYX format (based on ESIS - ISO 8879).
p2x (or depyx)
Convert PYX into XML.
REFERENCES
XMLStarlet is a command line toolkit to query/edit/check/transform XML documents (for more information see http://xmlstar.source-
forge.net/).
AUTHOR
Mikhail Grushinskiy.
XMLSTARLET(1)