Re: [Xmlstar-devel] parsing problem

[Noam P. <npo...@us...>]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 3:59 PM, msacks <nt...@gm...> wrote:
> Hello,
> I am having trouble doing some really basic things using xmlstar.
> I am executing this command  /usr/bin/xmlstarlet sel -t -c
> "category/structure/property[@name='productNumber']" -v "@value"
> ~user/Downloads/hp.USE808N6DS.xml
>
> against this xml file
> https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B6C4Iz1C9X9HMzVjNjRiMTYtZWM3YS00ODljLTgyM2EtMDNjYzIzZjVhYTE2&sort=name&layout=list&num=50
>
> Can someone clue me in as to what I am doing wrong?

You didn't explain exactly what your intention is, but I suppose you
meant @value to refer to the property element that you matched in the
previous argument. Unless you use -m (or --match) arguments are
relative to the root, I would guess you want this:

/usr/bin/xmlstarlet sel -t -m \
  "category/structure/property[@name='productNumber']" \
  -c . -v "@value" ~user/Downloads/hp.USE808N6DS.xml

Noam

PS I was unable do download your xml file, I got:

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