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A validator for XML files.

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how can I select element using xmllint command?

I am trying to select "Bvlgari omnia crystalline'perfume' 100ml" by making use of xmllint from the codes below. But As I'm newbie in the field of linux,It is insanely difficult to figure out ...
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Unable to extract some properties from Maven settings.xml using either xmllint or xmlstarlet

I have a Maven settings file at ~/.m2/settings.xml. I need to write some scripting that extracts the username and password from one of the server entries. I've tried using both "xmllint" ...
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Create CSV from an xml file

I'm trying to create a csv from an xml with just some information from the xml. This is my xml : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <hashlist version = "2.0" ...
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reading XML file and extract only node names and structure

I need to audit XML file structures and need to generate a report that shows only the DOM tree structure and omit the values. Essentially, I just the node names only and no values. I tried using ...
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How can XPath functions be expressed to output each input element?

I'm using this command: xmllint --xpath 'substring-after(string(//item/link), "_")' rss.xml And get the desired output, except it's on the first element. How would I fix this to have it be ...
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Update XML parameter, with namespace, using xmlstarlet

I have this XML file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <engineConfiguration xmlns="http://bla.com/engine/management/engineConfiguration"> <...
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xmlstarlet how to select tag immediately before selected tag

I scan scribus SLA files and wish to find the text having some specific paragraph styles. SLA file format is a quite flat XML format and there are several paragraphs in a row, each being separated ...
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How to extract specific node values without travesing via xmlstarlet

<xml> <email>[email protected]</email> <email>[email protected]</email> <email>[email protected]</email> <host> <ip>56....
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I want to add a namespace prefix to the tags of the default name space of an XML document from the shell

I have a SVG file, which is an XML document: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <svg xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" ...
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Extracting XML forming a resultset like format

I've encountered a case wherein I need to extract values from xml however, the tags are missing. To elaborate, I've manually finger-counted around 5 of the same elements however, one sibling node(...
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xmllint usage - having a hard time getting xml attributes

I'm in the process of retreiving some data from a xml file, it is actually a SSIS package file (dtsx). I've read about using xmllint, however I'm having a hard time retrieving what I want. I'd like ...
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how to parse the xml that have multiple properties and names

if we are having a XML script like this , How to get the value of a particular name using XML parsing <?XML> <conf> <prop><name>something</name><value>1</value&...
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how to output html to a file with xmllint?

How do I get xmllint to output to a file? thufir@dur:~/xmllint$ thufir@dur:~/xmllint$ xmllint --html http://www.skynet.be/nieuws-sport/weer/mijn-weer?cityId=6450 --xpath '//div[@class = "tides"]' - ...
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Need to parse data from xml to shell script [closed]

Need to parse data from xml to shell script one aft another Requriment :- we need to take <FileSetfolder> as one record. XML may contain many <FileSetFolder> from Each <FileSetFolder&...
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How to grep an XML tag and get only the value inside the quotes after it?

I'm trying to get these values from the XML format below: USA GERMANY <country name="USA" id="TEST1" password="123" /> <country name="GERMANY" id="TEST2" password="456" /> I was ...
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