Re: [xsl] Bash scritp

[Menzo Windhouwer <windhouw@xxxxxx>]

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.rodgers@xxxxxxx 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 
> >
> > --
> > Kevin Rodgers
> >
> >
> >    
>
> Beatriz Langiano
> Mestrado em Informatica
> Universidade Federal do Parana - Brasil
>
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