XMLStarlet

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Overview

XMLStartlet ships with one executable called xml, which can be used as the short form of the xmlstarlet command.

XPath Syntax

XPath Syntax

Usage

xml [options] <command> [command options]

sel Command

Select (query) an XML file using XPath. It can also generate an XSLT document. Internally, when sel command is used, the tool converts internally the commands into an XSLT to perform the query.

sel -t

Create an XSLT template using the provided options.

xml sel -t <template options> <xml-file-name>

Template Options

-c

-v

ed Command

Edit an XML file.

tr Command

Transform an XML file using XSLT.

General Options