era: Thanks for the solution! I won't wreck anything because all that the following process does is extract 17 arguments where it knows the tags..The tags with spaces are useless to me but are causing an erorr...I can't use an XML parser because I don't have the correct perl package. The solution you proposed works great but i am having a small problem now:
Here's part of my script:
Code:
for line in `perl -pe 's/<\s+/</g; s/\s+>/>\n/g; 1 while s/(<[^\s<>]+)\s+/$1/' $readyDir/$fileName`
do
case "$line" in
"</document>")
if [ $currentNdocs -gt $maxDocs ]
then
strFile="<DMS><documents>"$strFile"</documents></DMS>";
cd ${CLARIFY_DIR}/rulemanager
./cbbatch -f ../jobs/dms/DMS_Integration.cbs -r ParseXML -as ${strFile} >> ${CLARIFY_DIR}/jobs/dms/OUT
strFile=""
currentNdocs=0
else
strFile=$strFile$line;
fi
;;
*)
strFile=$strFile$line;
Basically when the script detects the end of a an xml document. It sends whatever it has recovered from the strFile concatenated with 'line' (i.e. everything before the the </document> including it). My problem arises when i have spaces between the text. The "line" function, when it finds a space it is concatinating it into strFile, the problem is it eliminates the space. (strFile = $strFile$line #the space is lost). Now, after solving the <ta g> spaces, I need a way the line will ignore the <tag>My Coments</tag> mid space and accept it so the overall strFile contains that space. The batch that receives the document cannot handle spaces between tag and tag but it CAN handle spaces within the tags...
Any suggestions as to what I can do? A replacement for line?
The line function, when it arrives at the tag DMSObjectSubType the Audio Contract turns into AudioContract in the strFile.
Another problem is the script should also be prepared to receive the XML's with spaces between the tags (</document> </documents>) and also with line terminators (</document>
</documents>)
basically the XML shown is the ideal format. I could pass that directly onto my parser and it would work provided the spaces between the <> where removed (which was done with the perl script era provided). Problem comes as i mentioned before, when i have spaces or \n between tags..
Could you rephrase what the problem is, and please edit your posting to add markup so that the code fits on one screen -- it's quite unreadable as it is now.
You are not quoting your arguments properly. I'm not sure if this will help but try adding double quotes around every variable reference. Like replace $strFile with "$strFile" throughout, and ditto for other variables.
Your case statement appears to have invalid syntax. That should be something like "case $line in " rather than just "case".
My problem is my batch file needs the format as follows:
1) No spaces within XML tags (your perl script did the job)
2) No spaces between an XML tag and another (</DMSObject> <DMSType> is not accepted yet </DMSObject><DMSType> is.)
3) Spaces allowed within XML inital and final tag (<DMSObject>Hello there</DMSObject>)
Right now 1 and 2 are being done, but 3 keeps on failing, and if i solve 3 then 1 and 2 are not solved
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Tricky one indeed