Tool development: by Perl-wrapped XQuery

[Michael Ludwig]

Jakob Fix schrieb:
> Talking of tools, what is the experience of people on this list with
> xmlstarlet (http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/) which seems to me like a
> close contender to xmlsh (but haven't looked closely)?

It is built on LibXML2 and LibXSLT by Daniel Veillard. It is like a bag
of tricks. It allows you to code shortcuts for XSLT on the command line.
But you're limited to a subset of XSLT and the quirks of the command
line (notably, quotes).

I still use "xmlstarlet list" when I need a directory listing in XML
because it's convenient and I happen to know about it.

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Michael Ludwig