debian man page for hxextract

HXEXTRACT(1)							  HTML-XML-utils						      HXEXTRACT(1)

NAME
       hxextract - extract selected elements from a HTML or XML file

SYNOPSIS
       hxextract [ -h | -? ] [ -x ] [ -s text ] [ -e text ] [ -b base ] element-or-class [ -c configfile | file-or-URL ]

DESCRIPTION
       hxextract outputs all elements with a certain name and/or class.

       Input must be well-formed, since no HTML heuristics are applied.

OPTIONS
       The following options are supported:

       -x	 Use XML format conventions.

       -s text	 Insert text at the start of the output.

       -e text	 Insert text at the end of the output.

       -b base	 URL base

       -c configfile
		 Read  @chapter  lines	from  configfile  (lines  must be of the form "@chapter filename") and extract elements from each of those
		 files.

       -h, -?	 Print command usage.

OPERANDS
       The following operands are supported:

       element-or-class
		 The name of an element to extract (e.g., "H2"), or the name of a class preceded by "." (e.g., ".example")  or	a  combination	of
		 both (e.g., "H2.example").

       file-or-URL
		 A file name or a URL. To read from standard input, use "-".

ENVIRONMENT
       To use a proxy to retrieve remote files, set the environment variables http_proxy and ftp_proxy.  E.g., http_proxy="http://localhost:8080/"

BUGS
       Remote  files (specified with a URL) are currently only supported for HTTP. Password-protected files or files that depend on HTTP "cookies"
       are not handled. (You can use tools such as curl(1) or wget(1) to retrieve such files.)

SEE ALSO
       hxselect(1)

6.x								    10 Jul 2011 						      HXEXTRACT(1)