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Old 08-26-2013
Escape Sequence Overide in XML file
Hi

I am try to use sed to remove decleration information from an XML file however their are special characters in the string and sed is not able to parse it . I am using the following commond.


Code:
sed -e "s/xmlns=http://www.abc.com/integration/services/testtemplate1//g" Orginal.xml >output.xml

I want to remove the following information
Code:
xmlns=http://www.abc.com/integration/services/testtemplate1

I am getting the error message


Code:
sed: 0602-404 Function s/xmlns=http://www.abc.com/integration/services/testtemplate1//g cannot be parsed

However the sed is not working.

Any suggestion please
Last edited by Don Cragun; 08-26-2013 at 11:18 PM..
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Old 08-26-2013
When the pattern you're trying to replace contains slash (/) characters, you have to use something other than slash as the delimiter in the sed substitute command or escape all of the slash characters in the pattern. For this example, you could try using the pipe symbol (|) as the delimiter:
Code:
sed -e "s|xmlns=http://www.abc.com/integration/services/testtemplate1||g" Orginal.xml >output.xml

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Old 08-26-2013
Hi Don
Thanks a lot for your reply .I have one more issue their are qoutes also how do I take care of those its like


Code:
 
sed -e "s|xmlns="123//abc/integration/"||g" Orginal.xml >output.xml

How do I handle these

---------- Post updated at 10:51 PM ---------- Previous update was at 10:43 PM ----------

I understand If I use single qoutes I will be able to handle it but I want to pass the string as a variable and when I use single qoutes it may not expand the variable
# 4  
Old 08-27-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by jimmyb
Hi Don
Thanks a lot for your reply .I have one more issue their are qoutes also how do I take care of those its like


Code:
 
sed -e "s|xmlns="123//abc/integration/"||g" Orginal.xml >output.xml

How do I handle these

---------- Post updated at 10:51 PM ---------- Previous update was at 10:43 PM ----------

I understand If I use single qoutes I will be able to handle it but I want to pass the string as a variable and when I use single qoutes it may not expand the variable
You are correct in saying that variables will not be expanded when they appear inside single quotes. Since there are no variables in your example I don't know what you're trying to do.

The sed command above will perform the same as any of the following:
Code:
sed -e "s|xmlns=123//abc/integration/||g" Orginal.xml >output.xml
sed -e 's|xmlns='123//abc/integration/'||g' Orginal.xml >output.xml
sed -e 's|xmlns=123//abc/integration/||g' Orginal.xml >output.xml
sed -e s"|"xmlns=123//abc/integration/'||'g Orginal.xml >output.xml

or several million other commands with other combinations of single and double quotes. If you will clearly describe where you want to put a variable and explain what is in the variable, we may be able to help.

If you are hoping to set a shell variable to a string matched by a pattern given in a sed substitute command, the syntax you are using is VERY strange and will not work in that form.
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