xmlstarlet

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A XML/XSLT toolkit. Note: You will likely need to know XPath: <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/XPath>.

Examples (8)

Format an XML document and print to `stdout`

xmlstarlet format path/to/file.xml

XML document can also be piped from `stdin`

cat path/to/file.xml | xmlstarlet format

Print all nodes that match a given XPath

xmlstarlet select --template --copy-of xpath path/to/file.xml

Insert an attribute to all matching nodes, and print to `stdout` (source file is unchanged)

xmlstarlet edit --insert xpath --type attr --name attribute_name --value attribute_value path/to/file.xml

Update the value of all matching nodes in place (source file is changed)

xmlstarlet edit --inplace --update xpath --value new_value file.xml

Delete all matching nodes in place (source file is changed)

xmlstarlet edit --inplace --delete xpath file.xml

Escape or unescape special XML characters in a given string

xmlstarlet [un]escape string

List a given directory as XML (omit argument to list current directory)

xmlstarlet ls path/to/directory