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A simpler XML tool
We've been getting a lot of XML questions lately, and I suspect it's only going to get worse better ... Normal shell utilities just can't handle it and the "proper" solutions, do-everything perl modules or things like xmlstarlet, just make my head ache.

Started coding something tonight. What the mockup can do, right now:

Code:
$ wget -q -O - "http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss" | ./mox item.title 2> /dev/null

<title>Israeli soldier freed after 5 years</title>
<title>Expert: Long road ahead for Shalit</title>
<title>Malaria vaccine tantalizingly close</title>
<title>Clinton makes unannounced Libya trip</title>
<title>Body may be missing Maryland boy</title>
<title>Disabled captives case may grow</title>

$

I'm hoping to eventually make it a language to match and rearrange xml, with a built-in event loop sort of like awk's.
 
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XACOBEO(1p)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					       XACOBEO(1p)

NAME

       xacobeo - Graphical interface for running XPath queries.

SYNOPSIS

       xacobeo [OPTION]... [file [xpath]]

       Options:

	  -h, --help		brief help message
	  -v, --version 	display the version of Xacobeo, XML::LibXML and libxml2
				that are used and exit
	  --html		parse the input file as an HTML document

       Where file is a XML document and xpath a XPath query.

OPTIONS

       --help  Print a brief help message and exits.

       --html  Parse the file in the command line using the HTML parser.

DESCRIPTION

       This program provides a simple graphical user interface (GUI) for executing XPath queries and seeing their results.

       The GUI tries to provide all the elements that are needed in order to write, test and execute XPath queries without too many troubles. It
       displays the Document Object Model (DOM) and the namespaces used. The program registers the namespaces automatically and each element is
       displayed with its associated namespaces. All is performed with the idea of being able of running an XPath query as soon as possible
       without having to fight with the document's namespaces and by seeing automatically under which namespace each element is.

       This program is not an XML editor, at least not at this point, it's meant to be used for constructing and executing XPath queries.

RATIONALE

       The main idea behind this application is to provide a simple way for building XPath queries that will be latter integrated in to a program
       or XSLT transformation paths. Therefore, this program goal is to load an XML document and to display it as an XML parser sees it. Thus each
       node element is prefixed with its namespace.

IMPLEMENTATION

       This program uses XML::LibXML (libxml2) for all XML manipulations and Gtk2 for the graphical interface.

LIMITATIONS

       For the moment, the program focuses only on XPath and doesn't allow the XML document to be edited.

AUTHOR

       Emmanuel Rodriguez <potyl@cpan.org>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright (C) 2008,2009 by Emmanuel Rodriguez.

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or,
       at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

perl v5.14.2							    2011-11-16							       XACOBEO(1p)