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It might work fine once, but it's wrong, so don't use it in production code. It only takes tiny insignificant variations in the formatting of the XML to break it. When working with XML, always use XML-aware tools.

Michael Kay
– Michael Kay

2019-03-15 16:42:55 +00:00
Commented Mar 15, 2019 at 16:42
@user32929 I'm trying to run this as a shell script on bamboo. CentOS 6. Would xmlstartlet be available on this? Do I need to install it first? Apologies I'm a bit new to it.

Cathal Mac Donnacha
– Cathal Mac Donnacha

2019-03-15 16:47:06 +00:00
Commented Mar 15, 2019 at 16:47

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