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matthiash
matthiash

Reputation: 3235

Getting all child names using xmlstarlet/xpath

Using xmlstarlet/xpath, how do I get the name of all child elements of a certain node? For example, I want to get all the child element names of /a

<a>
    <b><c/></b>
    <d/>
</a>

Should return:

b
d

I tried

xmlstarlet sel -t -c 'name(/a/*)' -

but this only gives me b

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1973

Answers (1)

Martin Honnen
Martin Honnen

Reputation: 167471

I don't think an XPath 1.0 expression can do it, you either need XPath 2.0 /a/*/name() (which I don't think xmlstarlet supports) or you need to use XSLT or try to use the xmlstarlet command line options to try to mimic XSLT. I don't have access to that tool and I am not familiar with details, according to http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/doc/xmlstarlet.txt you could try

xmlstarlet sel -t -m "/a/*" -v "name()"

Untested.

Upvotes: 6

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