Thread: [Xmlstar-devel] Identity Transform

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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

-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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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 :->

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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