#101 XPath function 'translate' can't process '&#xD'

[Volker]

To remove line breaks from a string you can't use

translate(comment,'
', ' ')

See http://xmlplease.com/whitespace for more examples.

[Volker]

Tested version:

xmlstarlet --version
1.3.1
compiled against libxml2 2.7.8, linked with 20708
compiled against libxslt 1.1.26, linked with 10126

[Noam Postavsky]

Interpreting 
 to mean carriage return is performed by the XML parser, but the arguments to xmlstarlet's sel and ed subcommands are just plain strings, not XML. If you want a newline pass a newline:

# in bash
$'translate(comment, "\n", " ")'

# in powershell.exe
"translate(comment, '`n', ' ')"

:: in cmd.exe
"translate(comment, '"^

"', ' ')"