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Old 04-10-2008
Error sed xml challenge
I have a web xml file that looks like this:

Code:
<allinfo>
    <info>
          <a>Name1<\a>
          <b>address1<\b>
           <c>phone1<c>
    <\info>
    <info>
          <a>Name2<\a>
          <b>address2<\b>
          <c>phone2<c>
<\info>
<\allinfo>

I want to use sed to extract all the informations.
for instance, the output for the xml above would be:

Name: Name1
address: address1
phone: phone1

Name: Name2
address: address2
phone: phone2

I thought of few ways of doing it, but right now I'm stuck on the sed code.

Any help would be great

Thank you
# 2  
Old 04-10-2008
Show us what you have.
# 3  
Old 04-10-2008
The website file you presented here was not valid or well-formed xml document

The following is a well-formed and valid xml document:
Code:
<allinfo>
    <info>
          <a>Name1</a>
          <b>address1</b>
          <c>phone1</c>
    </info>
    <info>
          <a>Name2</a>
          <b>address2</b>
          <c>phone2</c>
    </info>
</allinfo>

The best way to transform an XML document to use an XSLT processor. xsltproc is such a processor and is very common on UNIX and Linus systems.

Here is a stylesheet which will transform the XML document into the output you want.
Code:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:<xsl:output method="text" />

<xsl:template match="/allinfo/info">
Name: <xsl:value-of select="a"/>
Address: <xsl:value-of select="b"/>
Phone: <xsl:value-of select="c"/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

xsltproc file.xsl file.xml produces the following output:
Code:
Name: Name1
Address: address1
Phone: phone1

Name: Name2
Address: address2
Phone: phone2

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