Re: [Xmlstar-devel] Parsing XML with multiple namespaces

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

On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Gary Madarm <gm...@gm...> wrote:
> I am trying to parse an XML file (https://static.nvd.nist.gov/
> feeds/xml/cve/nvdcve-2.0-2013.xml.gz) and access specific elements
> (vuln:cve-id, cvss:score and cpe-lang:fact-ref). I've tried many different
> variations of the command below but the result is always empty. How can I
> access these values?

There is a default namespace, see
http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/doc/UG/ch05.html

Assuming a recent version of xmlstarlet (1.5+), you get the namespace
definitions for free:

xmlstarlet sel -t -v /_:nvd/_:entry/vuln:cve-id nvdcve-2.0-2013.xml