Re: [xsl] Bash scritp

Subject: Re: [xsl] Bash scritp
From: "Hardy Merrill" <HMerrill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 10:34:33 -0500
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

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