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[Xmlstar-devel] option: "--input-file=<xml-input-file>"

[Tylman U. <t....@gm...>]

Dear all!

XMLStarlet is an excellent tool - I ran across it recently and started 
to use it quite heavily soon afterwards.  It provides the kind of 
glue that I was missing between line-based Unix I/O and XML.


I wonder, though, how you can utilise "xml sel" in the following 
scenario:
- one big XML file ("data.xml")
- a list of words, one per line, in a plain text file ("words")

task: select something from the XML file for each word, i.e.

for WORD in `cat words`; do
  xml sel -t -m "//word[@form='$WORD']" -v 'text()' -n data.xml;
done

This is o.k., but very inefficient: you'll have to load data.xml once 
for each word.  If data.xml is very large and the list of words is 
long, this can become tedious rather quickly.  This line of argument 
also holds for inserting data with "xml ed" etc.


Alternatively, you could use "xargs".  I often use it to speed up 
similar scenarios: feed one program with many ops to carry out at 
once, instead of restarting it over and over again.  However, you run 
into a problem with "xml sel", because the input file has to be 
either on STDIN or the *last* argument on the command line.  

Otherwise you could write:
(the rather cryptic perl one-liner constructs one select expression 
per line)

cat words \
| perl -pe 'chomp; s!^!-t -m "//word[@form="!; s!$!"]" -v 
"text()" -n\x00!' \
| xargs -0 xml sel --input-file=data.xml

This would construct a command line consisting of as many operations 
as fit in one call, and only repeat the command when there are too 
many operations.  It seems that XMLStarlet scales well with that many 
options internally according to some tests I did.  For the moment, I 
resort to a wrapper that just filters out "--input-file=<file>" and 
leaves the rest unchanged, which, is not very elegant.  And 
problematic exactly for very long lines, where it is not clear if the 
filename will still fit on the line.  BTW I got the idea from the 
option "--target-directory=<dir>" of "mv" to specify the target dir, 
which I found useful for similar reasons.

I might be able to dig into the sources and provide a patch, but I was 
interested to hear your opinion first - and whether I did not notice 
any obvious solutions.  I'd be happy to hear any thoughts on this.


Thanks,
Tylman

Re: [Xmlstar-devel] Identity Transform

[David S. <ds...@vi...>]

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Michael B Allen wrote:

> But now I've noticed something odd. The following command appears to work:
>
> $ cat hashmap.xml | xml sel -t -c "@*|node()" -m "/|@*|node()" > out.xml
>
> I expected the result to be identical to the input. But it's not:
>
> $ diff hashmap.xml out.xml
> 1,2d0
> < <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <
> 57c55
> < The following example illustrates how to initialize a
> <ident>hashmap</ident> and use it to store the object <tt>data</tt>
> associated with the character string &quot;name&quot;.
> ---
> > The following example illustrates how to initialize a
> > <ident>hashmap</ident> and use it to store the object <tt>data</tt>
> > associated with the character string "name".
>
> Is this normal?

In the XML world, per the standards (as I understand them), it is
considered synonymous to use direct characters, numeric character
entities, or the pre-defined XML character entities (&quot; &apos; etc.)
to represent a character. So in formal terms the XML output with the ""
marks is identical to the input with &quot;.

DS

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Re: [Xmlstar-devel] Identity Transform

[Michael B A. <mb...@io...>]

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 21:23:49 -0500
Mikhail Grushinskiy <mgr...@gm...> wrote:

> -c option in your example needs an argument. It will work if you correct
> command line.

Indeed. Thanks.

But now I've noticed something odd. The following command appears to work:

$ cat hashmap.xml | xml sel -t -c "@*|node()" -m "/|@*|node()" > out.xml

I expected the result to be identical to the input. But it's not:

$ diff hashmap.xml out.xml 
1,2d0
< <?xml version="1.0"?>
< 
57c55
< The following example illustrates how to initialize a <ident>hashmap</ident> and use it to store the object <tt>data</tt> associated with the character string &quot;name&quot;.
---
> The following example illustrates how to initialize a <ident>hashmap</ident> and use it to store the object <tt>data</tt> associated with the character string "name".

Is this normal?

Mike

PS: I'm just fooling around so don't break your back answering :->

Re: [Xmlstar-devel] Identity Transform

[Mikhail G. <mgr...@gm...>]

-c option in your example needs an argument. It will work if you correct
command line.
You can always use xml sel -C to see what XSLT is actually being applied.

On 11/17/05, Michael B Allen <mb...@io...> wrote:
>
> How do you enter xpath expressions like the following?
>
> $ cat foo.xml | xml sel -t -c -m '/|@*|node()'
> warning: failed to load external entity "/%7C@*%7Cnode()"
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
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[Xmlstar-devel] Identity Transform

[Michael B A. <mb...@io...>]

How do you enter xpath expressions like the following?

$ cat foo.xml | xml sel -t -c -m '/|@*|node()'
warning: failed to load external entity "/%7C@*%7Cnode()"

Thanks,
Mike

Re: [Xmlstar-devel] IBM developerworks article

[Mikhail G. <mgr...@gm...>]

Directory listing option in really is not main focus of the toolkit.
As far as I remember I added it to use it in combination with xml sel
to loop through files in XSLT using document() xslt function.

I'm not sure why do you need unpacked date to process it in XSLT
it will make your date comparison operations, date arithmetics, etc
more complicated cause you would need to construct actual date out of
pieces.

I think it's better to use XSLT/EXSLT date/string functions to do same.

Example:
xml ls | xml sel -t -m "/dir/f[substring(@m,1,4) =3D '2005']" -v "@n" -o " =
"
-v "@s" -n

I wasn't sure someone was interested in directory listing as XML so this
option is not implemented in great details. Patches are always welcome
(ex: recursive listing).

Thank you,
--Mikhail

On 11/10/05, Alexandre Rafalovitch <ara...@gm...> wrote:
>
> > I'm pretty sure that many people would disagree with the value of such
> > approach.
> > Sorry, I didn't find any interesting points in the article.
>
> Actually, I never quite understood what the directory format was
> supposed to be useful for. The times I tried to use it, I wished I did
> have unpacked date for direct XSLT post-processing and also some sort
> of recursive descent into the directories.
>
> The kinds of things I wanted to do - I think - was to list all jar
> files at any level in a structure with their size and change date.
>
> Does anybody use that particular functionality enough to talk about it?
>
> Regards,
> Alex.
>
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Re: [Xmlstar-devel] IBM developerworks article

[Alexandre R. <ara...@gm...>]

> I'm pretty sure that many people would disagree with the value of such
> approach.
> Sorry, I didn't find any interesting points in the article.

Actually, I never quite understood what the directory format was
supposed to be useful for. The times I tried to use it, I wished I did
have unpacked date for direct XSLT post-processing and also some sort
of recursive descent into the directories.

The kinds of things I wanted to do - I think - was to list all jar
files at any level in a structure with their size and change date.

Does anybody use that particular functionality enough to talk about it?

Regards,
   Alex.

Re: [Xmlstar-devel] IBM developerworks article

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

Hmm,

This article is dated Nov 4th, 2005 but it is based on outdated version of 
xmlstarlet.
Better naming of root element and ISO 8601 date format have been in there 
for over 8 months.
It also proposes the following style for bit fields in XML (examples):

<bits>
  <bit1>true</bit1>
  <bit2>false</bit2>
  <bit3>true</bit3>
  <bit4>false</bit4>
</bits>

for 0101

and timestamps as:

<dateTime>
  <year>2005</year>
  <month>06</month>
  <day>10</day>
  <hour>13</hour>
  <minute>49</minute>
  <second>59</second>
</dateTime>

instead of 2005-06-10T13:49:59

I'm pretty sure that many people would disagree with the value of such 
approach.
Sorry, I didn't find any interesting points in the article.

--Mikhail

PS: Thanks for your feedback on xmlstarlet.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christof Hoeke" <chr...@gm...>
To: <xml...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 4:57 AM
Subject: [Xmlstar-devel] IBM developerworks article


Hello,
You may have read this. Xmlstar only serves as an example but
nevertheless the author IMHO has a point,
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tipflaw.html

I really am quite fond of xmlstar, very helpful and nice tool. But the
suggested improvements for the directory listing XML format which
xmlstar produces would really be quite helpful. Might this be
considered in a future version?


Thanks
Christof


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[Xmlstar-devel] IBM developerworks article

[Christof H. <chr...@gm...>]

Hello,
You may have read this. Xmlstar only serves as an example but
nevertheless the author IMHO has a point,
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tipflaw.html

I really am quite fond of xmlstar, very helpful and nice tool. But the
suggested improvements for the directory listing XML format which
xmlstar produces would really be quite helpful. Might this be
considered in a future version?


Thanks
Christof

[Xmlstar-devel] Building on Fedora Core 4

[Tommy R. <Tom...@Me...>]

Hi!

I'm not subscribed to the list, so please CC: me to reply.

Attached is a patch, against the current CVS tree, that replaces the
absolute library paths in the linking command line with a "-Lfoodir
-lfoo" pair.  Linux, at least, can be balky if libraries are directly
addressed on the command line without using the "-lfoo" idiom.

Cheers

[Xmlstar-devel] New introduction article about the XMLStarlet

[Alexandre R. <ara...@gm...>]

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[Xmlstar-devel] XMLStarlet Command Line XML/XSLT Toolkit 1.0.1 has been released

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

XMLStarlet Command Line XML/XSLT Toolkit 1.0.1 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/Solaris 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)

------------------------------------------------

Changes since 1.0.0=20

1. Recompiled against recent libxml2-2.6.18 and libxslt-1.1.13 libraries =


2. New binaries for Windows/Linux/Solaris=20

3. Fixed several pyx/depyx bugs

4. Windows binary has been compiled with iconv to support more encodings



XMLStarlet Command Line XML Toolkit

http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/

[Xmlstar-devel] XMLStarlet Command Line XML Toolkit 1.0.0 released

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

XMLStarlet Command Line XML/XSLT Toolkit 1.0.0 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)

------------------------------------------------

Changes since 0.9.5=20

1. Fixed few core dumps

2. Recompiled against recent libxml2-2.6.17 and libxslt-1.1.12 libraries =


3. New binaries for Windows/Linux=20

4. Updated documentation=20




XMLStarlet Command Line XML Toolkit

http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/

[Xmlstar-devel] Thanks!

[Mauricio M. M. <mau...@gm...>]

I'm just would like to thanks for this software!

I searched web a lot until find it using "apt-cache seach xsd" at Debian.

This software solved my problems!!!

Thanks again!

-- 
Maurício M. Maia

"SQLite is a small C library that implements a self-contained,
embeddable, zero-configuration SQL database engine."

SQLite: www.sqlite.org
SQLite Brasil: http://sqlitebrasil.codigolivre.org.br

Re: [Xmlstar-devel] Re: my 2 cents:

[Shaun M. <sh...@gn...>]

On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 19:00 -0400, Mikhail S Grushinskiy wrote:
> It looks like it is normal behaviour.
> Line breaks within attribute values are replaced by spaces by correct XML 
> parser.
> If you want to have attribute values with line breaks you have to encode 
> line breaks
> in original input XML. for example 

> 
> I would say it is a bug in the application which creates your XML.

Quite right.  See section 3.3.3 of the recommendation:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#AVNormalize

> >i am trying to use the xmlstarlet to delete some of the nodes from an xml 
> >file.
> > there are some attributes containing cr-lf s .(something like :
> > <doc><element name="test
> > 123" /></doc>
> > )
> > this is required  because the attribute contains a piece of vb code.
> > the attributes are not deleted, but the CR-LF pair is lost.
> > Is this a bug, or is there a parameter i can use to avoid this problem ?

Daniel, any application that requires content like this in an attribute
value is poorly designed.  Attribute values are not content, and should
never be treated as such.  The alt attribute on the img element in HTML
is an excellent example of what you should never do with attributes.

--
Shaun

[Xmlstar-devel] Re: my 2 cents:

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

It looks like it is normal behaviour.
Line breaks within attribute values are replaced by spaces by correct XML 
parser.
If you want to have attribute values with line breaks you have to encode 
line breaks
in original input XML. for example 


I would say it is a bug in the application which creates your XML.

--MG


>i am trying to use the xmlstarlet to delete some of the nodes from an xml 
>file.
> there are some attributes containing cr-lf s .(something like :
> <doc><element name="test
> 123" /></doc>
> )
> this is required  because the attribute contains a piece of vb code.
> the attributes are not deleted, but the CR-LF pair is lost.
> Is this a bug, or is there a parameter i can use to avoid this problem ?
>
> Thank you,
> Daniel


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[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)

------------------------------------------------

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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[Xmlstar-devel] XMLStarlet Command Line XML Toolkit 0.9.3 released

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

XMLStarlet Command Line XML/XSLT Toolkit 0.9.3 =
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)

------------------------------------------------

Changes since 0.9.1=20

1. Recompiled against recent libxml2-2.6.12 and libxslt-1.1.9 libraries=20

2. New binaries for Windows/Linux=20

3. Additional examples and tests=20

4. Fixed bug in namespaces argument parsing

5. Updated documentation=20




XMLStarlet Command Line XML Toolkit

http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/






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[Xmlstar-devel] Thank You

[<Joe...@ne...>]

Hi developers
Thanks for this great product and even more thanks for the quick response to my bug-report which as you pointed out was not a bug. 
Keep up the good work
Thank You,
joe


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[Xmlstar-devel] (no subject)

[Marcus P. <mar...@ho...>]

Hi,

I'm trying to insert one XML tag into a Visual Studio project file, using 
XmlStarlet (0.9.1 Win32 binaries), and my problem is that I can't get 
XmlStarlet to preserve the original formatting (that's what the -P and -S 
options are for, right?).

Example:

$ (echo "<a"; echo "   foo='1'>"; echo "</a>")
<a
   foo='1'>
</a>

$ (echo "<a"; echo "   foo='1'>"; echo "</a>") | xml ed -P -S -O -i /a -t 
attr -n bar -v 2
<a foo="1" bar="2">
</a>


So as you see, XmlStarlet puts all the attributes of the "a" -tag on the 
same line.

The real problem is, that VS stores multi-line values in it's configuration 
file, and XmlStarlet removes newlines from the attribute value. Example:

$ (echo "<a foo=\"1"; echo "2..\">"; echo "</a>")
<a foo="1
2..">
</a>

$ (echo "<a foo=\"1"; echo "2..\">"; echo "</a>") | xml ed -P -S -O -i /a -t 
attr -n bar -v 2
<a foo="1 2.." bar="2">
</a>

Any ideas?

Best regards,
-Marcus.

email: marcus_picasso at hotmail dot com

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[Xmlstar-devel] XMLStarlet Command Line XML/XSLT Toolkit 0.9.1 released

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

XMLStarlet Command Line XML/XSLT Toolkit 0.9.1 =
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)

------------------------------------------------

Changes since 0.8.1=20

1. Recompiled against recent libxml2-2.6.8 and libxslt-1.1.5 libraries=20

2. New binaries for Windows/Linux=20

3. Additional examples and tests=20

4. Fixed c14n canonicalization bug=20

5. Updated documentation=20



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Re: [Xmlstar-devel] Re: [xml] Possible bug in canonicalization

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

It was xmlstarlet bug.

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To: "Mikhail S Grushinskiy" <mgr...@co...>
Cc: "Elliotte Harold" <el...@me...>; <xm...@gn...>;
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Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 5:55 AM
Subject: [Xmlstar-devel] Re: [xml] Possible bug in canonicalization


> On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 06:15:23PM -0500, Mikhail S Grushinskiy wrote:
> > Fix has been committed to xmlstarlet CVS.
>
>   So was that a pure xmlstarlet bug or a libxml2 bug ? I'm a bit confused
> about the current status :-)
>
> Daniel
>
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[Xmlstar-devel] Re: [xml] Possible bug in canonicalization

[Aleksey S. <al...@al...>]

I was almost scared yesterday when I read about this bug :) But from the 
output
Mikhail gave it seems that this is xmlstarlet problem only.

Aleksey

Daniel Veillard wrote:

>On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 06:15:23PM -0500, Mikhail S Grushinskiy wrote:
>  
>
>>Fix has been committed to xmlstarlet CVS.
>>    
>>
>
>  So was that a pure xmlstarlet bug or a libxml2 bug ? I'm a bit confused
>about the current status :-)
>
>Daniel
>
>  
>

[Xmlstar-devel] Re: [xml] Possible bug in canonicalization

[Elliotte R. H. <el...@me...>]

At 5:55 AM -0500 2/9/04, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 06:15:23PM -0500, Mikhail S Grushinskiy wrote:
>>  Fix has been committed to xmlstarlet CVS.
>
>   So was that a pure xmlstarlet bug or a libxml2 bug ? I'm a bit confused
>about the current status :-)
>

I think Mikhail has claimed ownership of the bug. i.e. it was a pure 
xmlstarlet bug (unless Mikhail tells you differently).
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