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John Estess
John Estess

Reputation: 636

xmlstarlet with namespaces attribute replacement

I can't replace an attribute with xmlstarlet.

dog.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
  xmlns:rabbit="http://www.springframework.org/schema/rabbit"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/rabbit    http://www.springframework.org/schema/rabbit/spring-rabbit.xsd">
<rabbit:connection-factory id="mqConnectionFactory"
host="localhost"
port="9999" />
</beans>

Many variations of the following have been tried:

xmlstarlet ed -N B="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" -N R="http://www.springframework.org/schema/rabbit" --update "/B/R:connection-factor/@host"  --value "myserver" dog.xml

What am I missing? I've tried beans and B:beans for B and many variations of R, but I don't see to be selecting the right element.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 365

Answers (2)

urznow
urznow

Reputation: 1801

With full namespace declarations,

xmlstarlet ed \
    -N B="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" \
    -N rabbit="http://www.springframework.org/schema/rabbit" \
    --update '/B:beans/rabbit:connection-factory/@host' \
    --value "myserver" dog.xml

or, with an xmlstarlet shortcut, per the user guide:

xmlstarlet ed \
    -N rabbit="http://www.springframework.org/schema/rabbit" \
    --update '/_:beans/rabbit:connection-factory/@host' \
    --value "myserver" dog.xml

Spot the typo: your command is missing the final y in connection-factory.

Upvotes: 2

Cyrus
Cyrus

Reputation: 88646

Two ways around the problem with failed to load external entity with your example:

xmlstarlet edit --update "//@host" --value "myserver" file.xml

or

xmlstarlet edit --update "//*[local-name()='connection-factory']/@host" --value "myserver" file.xml

Upvotes: 2

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