Shell Programming and Scripting

awk '/<network nport/,/>/' test.xml
awk '/<network nport/,/>/' test.xml

<network nport="1234" action="SHUTDOWN">
<host name="abcd">

network nport="1234"
host name="abcd"

awk '/<host name/,/>/' test.xml |  cut -d'<' -f2 |cut -d'>'  -f1

# yum install perl-XML-XPath.noarch
or
# perl -MCPAN -e 'install XML::XPath'

#! /usr/bin/perl
use XML::XPath;

$xp=XML::XPath->new('/tmp/a');
$nodes=$xp->find('//network');
foreach $n ($nodes->get_nodelist) {
        print 'network nport="', $n->getAttribute('nport'), "\"\n";
}
$nodes=$xp->find('//host');
foreach $n ($nodes->get_nodelist) {
        print 'host name="', $n->getAttribute('name'), "\"\n";
}