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XMLStarlet is a set of command line utilities (tools) which can be used to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and files using simple set of shell commands in similar way it is done for plain text files using UNIX grep, sed, awk, diff, patch, join, etc commands.

XMLStarlet is a set of command line utilities (tools) which can be used to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and files using simple set of shell commands in similar way it is done for plain text files using UNIX grep, sed, awk, diff, patch, join, etc commands.

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How to insert a new element under another with xmlstarlet?

$ vim test.xml $ xmlstarlet ed -i "/config" -t elem -n "sub" -v "" test.xml But I wanted sub to be a child of config.…
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XMLStarlet does not select anything

I have a typical pom.xml, and want to print the groupId, artifactId and version, separated by colon. I think that XMLStarlet is the right tool for that. I tried several ways, but I always get an empty line. xml sel -t -m project -v groupId -o : -v…
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Testing for an XML attribute

I have a piece of XML like so: I want to know which elements have a src attribute, which are empty and which have values. The furthest I have come is with $ xmlstarlet sel -t -m…
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xmlstarlet select value

This is the xml-data:
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how to update the xml file using xmlstarlet

I am using windows version of xmlstarlet to update an xml file, via windows batch file. xml edit --update "/xml/table/rec[@id=3]/@id" --value 10 %xmlfile% I expected this to update the id attribute of rec node to 10. When I run this I see the…
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How to declare XPath namespaces in xmlstarlet?

I am new to xmlstarlet so hoping this answer is a simple one. I am writing a script to modify Inkscape SVG files from the command line. I chose the tool xmlstarlet. After testing the command syntax on test files, I am having trouble on the real SVG…
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Extracting and dumping elements using xmlstarlet

I am looking for a way to extract and print an element from my xml using xmlstarlet; for example if my xml is Harry Potter …
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how to? xmlstarlet to extract HTML data by id

I have a simple task that has me pulling my hair out, i'm sure i'm very close. here is my xhtml file:
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xmlstarlet sel output new line between values

I have the following XML I do get the correct values from the attributes but I want to have them separated on by a new line for further processing. When using the command xmlstarlet…
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Parsing XML and replacing specific elements or attribute values via shell script

For the below xml ,I need to replace for CLASSA to failed. CLASSA …
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How do I insert an element directly after another element with XMLStarlet?

With this example XML: How do I insert element directly after the element using XMLStarlet?
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How to install/setup XMLStarlet in Linux?

I'm fairly new to Linux and shell scripting; and have a requirement to parse and query an xml. I was able to find and use XML starlet for Windows successfully. However, my goal is to have that run on Linux via a shell script. Can anyone please share…
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Select node by its text value in xmlstarlet

I am trying to extract the value of the 'Value' node, where the 'Key' node is 'state' within a bash shell: