RE: [Xmlstar-devel] Great!

[Daniel S. <sh...@ir...>]

I did not put much thought yet but here is an idea...

With the xml ed, we are actually replacing something with something else. So
the basic idea is xml ed -u "..." -x "..." where -u is the r-left and -x is
the r-right values.

However, it is often difficult to construct an XPath for the r-value in one
statement. I was rather thinking something in the line of :

xml ed -u "..." -r ...multiple statements...

In multiple statements we must be able to match (-m), copy (-c), add a tag
(-e), get a value (-v), evaluate an XPath (-x), delete a tag (-d) and maybe
more. Each of these actions are "piped" together as usual, and the result of
the last command will be pasted in the l-value. I dont know what can happen
if you try to replace an attribute with an XML node instead of a value?

Therefore we could do something like:

xml ed -u "..." -r -m "/Record/Number" -v "node()" -x "some XPath that adds
1 to the -v" ...

This example is obvisouly overkill for what it does.

Daniel Shane