Re: Bash scritp

Maybe the XMLStarlet tool can help you here
(see http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/). You can specify an
XPath expression on the command line, and it will get the
value for you.

<foo>
   <date>today</date>
   <creator>me</creator>
</foo>

#!/bin/bash
FILE="$HOME/tmp/test.xml"
DATE=`xml select -T -t -v '//date' $FILE`
echo $DATE

Hi Hardy,

Thanks by your help, but what I need read some
specifics  elements of a XML document, as I do in
XSLT, for example:

<date>
<xsl:value-of select= "." />
</date>

<creator>
<xsl:value-of select= "." />
</date>

My script must read these elements values and insert
them in a database.

Thanks, Beatriz



--- Hardy Merrill <HMerrill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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

Beatriz Langiano
Mestrado em Informatica
Universidade Federal do Parana - Brasil

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