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Sven van den Boogaart
Sven van den Boogaart

Reputation: 12323

XMLLINT split matches per line

Given xml

<parent>
   <child>test1</child>
   <child>test2</child>
</parent>

Using xmllint I can get the childs with:

| xmllint --format --xpath '//parent/child/text()' -

This gives the result test1test2

Is there an easy way to return it with a separator between them, e.g. test1-test2 or a space, like test1 test2. The goal is to use the found matches in a pipeline and loop over them, but because everything is merged together without a separator it is not working.

EDIT using rhel7

Upvotes: 1

Views: 58

Answers (1)

LMC
LMC

Reputation: 12662

xmllint --shell can be used as follows

printf "%s\n" 'cat //parent/child/text()' 'bye' | xmllint --shell <(cat tmp2.xml)
/ > cat //parent/child/text()
 -------
 test1 
 -------
 test2 
/ > bye

Cleaning the ouput

printf "%s\n" 'cat //parent/child/text()' 'bye' | xmllint --shell <(cat tmp2.xml) | grep -Ev '^(\/ > | ----)'
 test1 
 test2

Upvotes: 0

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