xmllint

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XML parser and linter that supports XPath, a syntax for navigating XML trees.

Examples (6)

Return all nodes (tags) named "foo"

xmllint --xpath "//foo" source_file.xml

Return the contents of the first node named "foo" as a string

xmllint --xpath "string(//foo)" source_file.xml

Return the href attribute of the second anchor element in an HTML file

xmllint --html --xpath "string(//a[2]/@href)" webpage.xhtml

Return human-readable (indented) XML from file

xmllint --format source_file.xml

Check that an XML file meets the requirements of its DOCTYPE declaration

xmllint --valid source_file.xml

Validate XML against DTD schema hosted online

xmllint --dtdvalid URL source_file.xml