02-15-2005
Converting Text File into XML using Unix Shell Scripts
Hi everyone,
If someone out there could help me out with this problem. I would really appreciate it.
I am trying to convert a file into xml format using Unix shell scripts.
The file has fields with each field having a certain number of bytes, but the fields are not delimited by anything (e.g. whitespace). I need to get those fields into some sort of data structure so that I can use them to generate the XML using a simple for loop. The following is a an example of what I am looking at:
Jack Johnson 90980288Harv 9090998
Joe Joie 8989 Sed 99488
I can't use whitespace as a delimiter.
Thanks you guys very much,
I really appreciate it.
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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-
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AUTHOR
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