[Xmlstar-devel] XMLStarlet Command Line XML Toolkit 0.9.5 released

[Mikhail S G. <mgr...@co...>]

XMLStarlet Command Line XML/XSLT Toolkit 0.9.5 has been released

http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/


XMLStarlet is a set of command line utilities (tools) to transform, =
query, validate, and edit XML documents and files using simple set of =
shell commands in similar way it is done for plain text files using UNIX =
grep, sed, awk, diff, patch, join, etc commands.


This set of command line utilities can be used by those who deal with =
many XML documents on UNIX shell command prompt as well as for automated =
XML processing with shell scripts.


The toolkit's feature set includes options to:=20


Check or validate XML files (simple well-formedness check, DTD, XSD, =
RelaxNG)=20


Calculate values of XPath expressions on XML files (such as running =
sums, etc)


Search XML files for matches to given XPath expressions


Apply XSLT stylesheets to XML documents (including EXSLT support, and =
passing parameters to stylesheets)


Query XML documents (ex. query for value of some elements of attributes, =
sorting, etc)


Modify or edit XML documents (ex. delete some elements)


Format or "beautify" XML documents (as changing indentation, etc)


Fetch XML documents using http:// or ftp:// URLs


Browse tree structure of XML documents (in similar way to 'ls' command =
for directories)


Include one XML document into another using XInclude


XML c14n canonicalization


Escape/unescape special XML characters in input text


Display directories in XML format


Convert XML into PYX format (based on ESIS - ISO 8879) and vice versa


XMLStarlet command line utility is written in C and uses libxml2 and =
libxslt from http://xmlsoft.org/. Implementation of extensive choice of =
options for XMLStarlet utility was only possible because of rich feature =
set of libxml2 and libxslt (many thanks to the developers of those =
libraries for great work).=20


XMLStarlet is linked statically to both libxml2 and libxslt, so =
generally all you need to process XML documents is one executable file. =
To run XmlStarlet utility you can simple type 'xml' on command line and =
see list of options available.=20


XMLStarlet is open source freeware under MIT license which allows free =
use and distribution for both commercial and non-commercial projects.=20


New binaries for Linux/Windows have been released. (i586 rpm are for =
Mandrake-10.0)=20


We welcome any user's feedback on this project which would greatly help =
us to improve its quality. Comments, suggestions, feature requests, bug =
reports can be done via SourceForge project web site (see XMLStarlet =
Sourceforge forums at http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=3D66612, or =
XMLStarlet mailing list at =
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xmlstar-devel)

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Changes since 0.9.3=20

1. Fixed security bugs (buffer overflows)

2. Recompiled against recent libxml2-2.6.13 and libxslt-1.1.10 libraries =


3. New binaries for Windows/Linux=20

4. Updated documentation=20




XMLStarlet Command Line XML Toolkit

http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/


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