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Old 11-08-2011
HTML to XML parser
Hello forum, I am having problems to write a bash script.

I am trying to get some information from a web page, I want to format it to XMLTV. This is web page: Programación de las cadenas etb1, etb2, etb3, canal vasco y etb sat | EITB Televisión

I want to get something like this:

Code:
<programme start="20111107131000 +0100">
<title lang="es">Elefanteen egunkariak</title>

From this:

Code:
<p class="hora">13:10</p>
<h2 class="titulo">
Elefanteen egunkariak - <span class="titulo_emision">Ama galtzean hasten da dena</span> <span class="ico"></span>

I try with wget and sed, but I can not get the desired format.

Is there any other tool to do this?

I started with this script:

Code:
#!/bin/bash

url="http://www.eitb.com/es/television/programacion/"
file1="etbsat1.txt"
file2="etbsat2.txt"

rm $file1
rm $file2

wget $url -O $file1
cp $file1 $file2

#Tabs
sed -i 's/
                                        //g' $file2
sed -i 's/                                      //g' $file2

#Lines
sed -i 's/^M$//g' $file2

The problem is that I can not delete the line after "<h2 class="titulo">" line.

Thanks for your help and best regards.
# 2  
Old 11-23-2011
I don't think you are going to get very far with shell scripting. It is far better to use Perl, which has an extensive library on dealing with markup languages like HTML.
Also the line sed -i 's/^M$//g' $file2 suggests that you are looking at a Windows generated file. You can use fromdos to achieve the same.
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