I need to grab attributes from the XML file with pure bash script.
So I have the following XML file with a root element `Group` and lots of `Person` elements, every of them has `id` and `username` attributes. `id` is unique value for each element:
And I need to use bash script to extract the `id` and `username` attributes into some key-value structure:
Checked other related answers, but most of them suggest to use some XML parsers like xmllint. But unfortunately I do not have them on the target machine.
Can you kindly suggest what how I can achieve this. Thanks in advance.
I have an xml file:
<AutoData xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<Table1>
<Data1 10 </Data1>
<Data2 20 </Data2>
<Data3 40 </Data3>
<Table1>
</AutoData>
and I have to remove the portion xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" only.
I tried using sed... (10 Replies)
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Hello,
Is there any way to use the dir command / some DOS Script to select only first file of similar pattern of files in a direcotory and rename it for example, one directory has 5 files
abc_1005.txt
abc_5256.txt
abc_2001.txt
abc_2003.txt
abc_3006.txt
by use script I would... (2 Replies)
Hi,
Iam new to shell scripting.I have below urgent requirement
I want to read attributes (transaction,documentmode) in xml tag with shell scripting and create a filename with these attribues
Xml :
<PURCHASE_10 partner="food" version="1.50" timestamp="2009-03-10T09:56:55"... (3 Replies)
I am completely new to bash scripting and now need to write a bash script that would parse a XML file and take out values from specific tags.
I tried using xsltproc, xml_grep commands. But the issue is that the XML i am trying to parse is not UTF 8. so those commands are unable to parse my XML's... (4 Replies)
Hi guys,
I'm working on a large set of scripts to move files around several servers and manipulate them for our staff. Basically we're shooting things, the videos hit a server and then need organised due to the language they've been shot in. Our XML (designed for Apple's Final Cut Pro) is right... (6 Replies)
I need to extract all text delimited from <name> and </name> tags from an xml file, but not only first occurence. I need to extract all occurences.
I've tried with this command:
awk -F"<name>|</name>" 'NF>2{print $2}'
but it give only first occurence. How can i modify it? (18 Replies)
Hi ! I'm working into my first bash script to make some xml modification and it's going to make me crazy lol .. so I decide to try into this forum to take some ideas from people that really know about this!
This is my situation I've and xml file with a lots of positional values with another tags... (9 Replies)
I tried searching the forums, but couldn't find anything relevant to my question.
I have an xml file like the following:
<topLevel numberBlock="BLOCK1">
<item="content1" title="Content 1">
<RefPath="path/to/file1.txt />
</item>
<item"content2" title="Content 2" >... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
Hope all you are doing good! Need your help. I have an XML file which needs to be converted CSV file. I am not an expert of awk/sed so your help is highly appreciated!!
XML file looks like this:
<l:event dateTime="2013-03-13 07:15:54.713" layerName="OSB" processName="ABC"... (2 Replies)
I have multiple xml files where i want to update a subnode if the subnode project points to different project or insert a subnode if it doesn't exist using a xmlstarlet or any other command that can be used in a bash script.
I have been able to update the subnode project if it doesn't point to... (1 Reply)
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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: xml <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)