Hi,
Maybe the XMLStarlet tool can help you here
(see http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/). You can specify an
XPath expression on the command line, and it will get the
value for you.
So if you have the following document in ~/tmp/test.xml:
<foo>
<date>today</date>
<creator>me</creator>
</foo>
The following call to the XMLStarlet tool xml will give you the date:
xml select -T -t -v '//date' ~/tmp/test.xml
Example in a bash script:
#!/bin/bash
FILE="$HOME/tmp/test.xml"
DATE=`xml select -T -t -v '//date' $FILE`
echo $DATE
This script will print the date for you ...
Hope this helps,
Menzo Windhouwer
Beatriz Langiano wrote:
Hi Hardy,
Thanks by your help, but what I need read some
specifics elements of a XML document, as I do in
XSLT, for example:
<date>
<xsl:value-of select= "." />
</date>
<creator>
<xsl:value-of select= "." />
</date>
My script must read these elements values and insert
them in a database.
Thanks, Beatriz
--- Hardy Merrill <HMerrill(_at_)dhcr(_dot_)state(_dot_)ny(_dot_)us> wrote:
This is a bit (a lot) off topic for this list, but
I'll humor you since
I like Linux :)
I'll give this a shot, but please know that I
haven't done anything in
Linux and Bash in quite a while, so take this with a
grain of salt ;-)
Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but if
all you want to do
is "read" the XML document, I think(?) you could
pipe the XML file to
your bash script, and have the bash script read it
line by line from
standard input (STDIN). I can't remember how to set
up the read loop in
bash, but it shouldn't be too hard to figure out. I
think you could
probably find all you need by doing
man bash
at a command prompt.
HTH.
Hardy Merrill
kevin(_dot_)rodgers(_at_)ihs(_dot_)com 03/08/05 10:25 AM >>>
Beatriz Langiano writes:
I was writing a bash script (in linux), and I'd
like
to to read a XML document, like in XSLT.
Does somebody know how I could do this?
I haven't tried it, but William Park maintains a
souped-up version of
bash that includes XML support (nothing like
XPath/XSLT though):
http://freshmeat.net/projects/bashdiff/index.html#xml
http://home.eol.ca/~parkw/index.html#xml
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