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# 1  
Old 03-27-2013
Reading xml tags from ksh script
Hi,

I have an XMl file, below is sample:
Code:
<TRANSFORMATION DESCRIPTION ="Created by:- " NAME ="LKP_FT_T_FILEK" OBJECTVERSION ="1" REUSABLE ="YES" TYPE ="Lookup Procedure" VERSIONNUMBER ="1">
</TRANSFORMATION>

I need to read the tag, and if the tag is TRANSORMATION, i want to check the Type and then the name.

The basic requirement is to check the naming standards

Can anyone please help?

Thanks
# 2  
Old 03-27-2013
Code:
OLDIFS="$IFS"
IFS="\"="
while read LINE
do
        [[ "$LINE" == *"<TRANSFORMATION"* ]] || continue

        set -- $LINE

        while [ "$#" -gt 0 ]
        do
                case "$1" in
                *NAME*)
                        echo "Got name $2"
                        shift
                        ;;
                esac
                shift
        done
done

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# 3  
Old 03-28-2013
How do we take the input file in the above and How to capture the xml tag attribute value into variable in shell script??
# 4  
Old 03-28-2013
Have you tried the code I gave above? It splits and searches in tags, and uses case statements to tell which are which, you can alter it a little to do exactly what you want.
# 5  
Old 03-29-2013
Hi Corona,

Thank you so much, the code was very helpful.
set-- is printing the attributes of the tag, is it possible to put the result of set-- into a variable?

Or is it possible to display the result of set-- $LINE in : delimited format?

Thank you
Last edited by kedar_laveti; 03-29-2013 at 09:40 AM..
# 6  
Old 03-29-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by kedar_laveti
. . .
set-- is printing the attributes of the tag,
It is not. It sets the positional parameters $1 ... $n to the elements of $LINE.

Quote:
is it possible to put the result of set-- into a variable?
What about e.g. VARIABLE=$2?
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# 7  
Old 04-03-2013
Thanks Corona and Rudi,

Your suggestions helped me a lot. I got the idea to read the xml tags.
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