Activity for XMLStarlet command line XML toolkit

Jeremy Fleischman created ticket #136

Jeremy Fleischman — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:13:11 -0000

`xmlstarlet ed --inplace ...` silently fails to update files it doesn't have permission to edit

Thomas Jespersen posted a comment on ticket #135

Thomas Jespersen — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:02:08 -0000

I can confirm that this and #134 are the same issue. I tracked it down to some of the libxml2 functions for opening xml readers no longer supporting reading from stdin. I've opened a PR to patch it in Gentoo Linux, which makes the tests pass (here: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/44621). I'm not sure it's the right fix, feedback is welcome.

Bernd Kuhls created ticket #23

Bernd Kuhls — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 16:45:19 -0000

Fix build with libxml2-2.14

Loren M. Lang posted a comment on ticket #135

Loren M. Lang — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 08:16:12 -0000

I had a bug in my script that caused the failure in my last comment. I've actually confirmed the same exact 5 tests fail on both 2.13.x and 2.14.x. I've confirmed that the tip of all branches from 2.9.x to 2.12.x past the test suite without issue and the change in 2.13.x is the same as reported in #134. XMLStarlet fails with the following error on those tests: couldn't read file '-' - - invalid

Loren M. Lang modified a comment on ticket #135

Loren M. Lang — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 04:13:58 -0000

I suspect these issues are related to issue #134. Testing with libxml2-2.14.5, nearly the entire test suite fails.

Loren M. Lang posted a comment on ticket #135

Loren M. Lang — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 04:13:49 -0000

I suspect these issues are related to issue #134. Testing with libxml2-2.14.5, nearly the extire test suite fails.

Loren M. Lang posted a comment on ticket #134

Loren M. Lang — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 04:09:33 -0000

I am able to replicate that issue on my set-up with libxml 2.13.8. I tried testing with the latest release of each minor branch. The versions 2.9.14, 2.10.4, 2.11.9, and 2.12.10 worked as expected. However 2.13.8 and 2.14.5 failed similarly. 2.14.5 also printed out "unable to open -". Will investigate this further.

Loren M. Lang created merge request #8 on Code

Loren M. Lang — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 04:34:09 -0000

Fix cross-compile build for mingw32

Sebastian Pipping created ticket #135

Sebastian Pipping — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 14:45:45 -0000

[1.6.1] Five tests are failing with libxml2 >=2.13.5

Oliver Mangold created ticket #134

Oliver Mangold — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 06:35:04 -0000

val mode reading from stdin no longer working

Shane Carr created ticket #133

Shane Carr — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 20:37:25 -0000

xmlstarlet ed should not change XML entities

林博仁(Buo-ren Lin) posted a comment on ticket #22

林博仁(Buo-ren Lin) — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 03:00:14 -0000

Typo fix of the original post: s/wone/one/

林博仁(Buo-ren Lin) posted a comment on ticket #22

林博仁(Buo-ren Lin) — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 10:05:59 -0000

I would like to note that I was previously using the xmlstarlet elements -v command to generate the XPaths. Version information: $ xmlstarlet --version 1.6.1 compiled against libxml2 2.9.14, linked with 20914 compiled against libxslt 1.1.35, linked with 10139

林博仁(Buo-ren Lin) created ticket #22

林博仁(Buo-ren Lin) — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 10:04:15 -0000

Please support querying unique XPaths to traverse each of the elements in the specified XML document

Herbert Hippler posted a comment on ticket #44

Herbert Hippler — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 04:51:05 -0000

I found a solution: In my example above, I have added the redirection from stderr to stdout! xml val -e -s abc.xsd xyz.xml > result.txt 2>&1 "2>&1" does the job!

Dan Fandrich created ticket #132

Dan Fandrich — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:28:46 -0000

Transparent decompression in libxml2 is deprecated

Herbert Hippler posted a comment on ticket #44

Herbert Hippler — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:34:54 -0000

Hi, Windows 11 Pro, piping doesn't work at all. E.G.: xml val -e -s abc.xsd xyz.xml>result.txt In result.txt I have the result (e.g. xyz.xml - invalid) but the other output (xyz.xml🔢20 Element...) is only to see in the cmd-box. I wanted to interpret the output (for example jump directly to the appropiate line). With the already mentiones options (-o or --output) the program could open a file instead of stdout. Is there a chance?

Mark B posted a comment on ticket #131

Mark B — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 23:29:08 -0000

Note I raised this issue on libxml2 and they released new version 2.13.1 to fix it.

Mark B posted a comment on ticket #131

Mark B — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 06:22:35 -0000

With libxslt 1.1.40 installed, do the following to see the bug: $ echo '' | xml fo failed to load "-": No such file or directory

Mark B created ticket #131

Mark B — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 06:18:28 -0000

Reading from standard input broken since libxslt 1.1.40 update

dragomerlin created ticket #130

dragomerlin — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 21:27:30 -0000

entity name too long

Gilles modified a comment on discussion Help

Gilles — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 11:10:19 -0000

Hello, I need to know how many "trkpt" elements the following file contains: xml.exe el test.gpx gpx gpx/metadata gpx/metadata/name gpx/trk gpx/trk/name gpx/trk/trkseg gpx/trk/trkseg/trkpt gpx/trk/trkseg/trkpt/ele gpx/trk/trkseg/trkpt/time gpx/trk/trkseg/trkpt gpx/trk/trkseg/trkpt/ele gpx/trk/trkseg/trkpt/time For some reason, the example in the doco doesn't work — it returns 0, nothing, or is stuck: xml.exe sel -t -v "count(/gpx/trk/trkseg/trkpt)" test.gpx xml.exe sel -t -m "//trkpt" test.gpx xml.exe...

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Gilles — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 11:09:55 -0000

Hello, I need to know how many "tkrpt" elements the following file contains: xml.exe el test.gpx gpx gpx/metadata gpx/metadata/name gpx/trk gpx/trk/name gpx/trk/trkseg gpx/trk/trkseg/trkpt gpx/trk/trkseg/trkpt/ele gpx/trk/trkseg/trkpt/time gpx/trk/trkseg/trkpt gpx/trk/trkseg/trkpt/ele gpx/trk/trkseg/trkpt/time For some reason, the example in the doco doesn't work — it returns 0, nothing, or is stuck: xml.exe sel -t -v "count(/gpx/trk/trkseg/trkpt)" test.gpx xml.exe sel -t -m "//trkpt" test.gpx xml.exe...

Gilles posted a comment on discussion Help

Gilles — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:04:53 -0000

For others' benefit… After diving into Andrew Watt's "XPath Essentials" from 2002, seasoned with a bit of googling, here's the solution: xml.exe sel -B -t -m "//item" -v "title" -n -v "guid" -n -v "enclosure/@url" -n -n test.xml

Gilles posted a comment on discussion Help

Gilles — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 08:25:11 -0000

Hello, I assume it can be done with XmlStarlet but it requires XPath kung-fu way above my head. I need to grab an RSS feed using wget, and then feed it to XmlStarlet to grab a few sibings from each item: wget -qO - https://feeds.acme.com/feed/rss.xml |xmlstarlet\xml.exe sel -t =========== rss/channel/item THIS rss/channel/item/title THIS rss/channel/item/guid rss/channel/item/guid/@isPermaLink rss/channel/item/description rss/channel/item/content:encoded THIS rss/channel/item/pubDate...

Thomas Wolff modified a comment on ticket #129

Thomas Wolff — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 17:02:01 -0000

Sorry, I mangled the report. The broken test case is xmlstarlet unesc "ö"

Thomas Wolff modified a comment on ticket #129

Thomas Wolff — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 17:01:01 -0000

Sorry, I mangled the report. The broken test case is xmlstarlet unesc "ö"

Thomas Wolff posted a comment on ticket #129

Thomas Wolff — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 16:44:56 -0000

Sorry, I mangled the report. The broken test case is xmlstarlet unesc "&x246;"

Thomas Wolff created ticket #129

Thomas Wolff — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 16:35:01 -0000

unesc ignores locale

Yaakov Selkowitz posted a comment on ticket #22

Yaakov Selkowitz — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 01:52:43 -0000

That patch still results in errors when building this on Fedora rawhide. The attach patch fixes all errors and some const warnings.

Bernd Kuhls created ticket #22

Bernd Kuhls — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 13:06:45 -0000

Fix build with libxml2-2.12

Tomasz Kłoczko posted a comment on ticket #49

Tomasz Kłoczko — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 12:04:24 -0000

Second one looks lie has been created in 2016 and since then nothing has been done

Dagobert Michelsen posted a comment on ticket #49

Dagobert Michelsen — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 11:59:19 -0000

Just seach for xmlstarlet, e.g. https://github.com/dimitern/xmlstarlet https://github.com/fishjam/xmlstarlet

Tomasz Kłoczko posted a comment on ticket #49

Tomasz Kłoczko — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 11:04:45 -0000

OK so where are those forks?

Dagobert Michelsen posted a comment on ticket #49

Dagobert Michelsen — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 07:53:18 -0000

Hi Tomasz, there are already some forks of Github. I would say maintenance here is on a fairly low level at the moment. Feel free to fork on Github and proceed with your ideas! Best regards -- Dago

Tomasz Kłoczko created ticket #49

Tomasz Kłoczko — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 21:24:04 -0000

Move git repo to github/gilab or organize live mirror

Tomasz Kłoczko posted a comment on ticket #21

Tomasz Kłoczko — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 21:17:47 -0000

Is it possible to merge this patch?

qweasd modified a comment on discussion Help

qweasd — Fri, 19 May 2023 11:39:57 -0000

Hello everyone. I have xml document with structure like this:

qweasd modified a comment on discussion Help

qweasd — Fri, 19 May 2023 11:39:23 -0000

Hello everyone. I have xml document with structure like this: pts table rows row p00="some_id" p01="some_1 value_1" row p00="some_id_2" p01="some_2 value_2" rows table pts I need to get value from attribute p01. I try this command: xmlstarlet sel -T -t -v "/pts/table/rows/row/@p01" file.xml. And get value i need, but all values split by whitespace like this: "some_1" "value_1" "some_2" "value_2" but i need it like this "some_1 value_1" "some_2 value_2".

qweasd modified a comment on discussion Help

qweasd — Fri, 19 May 2023 11:39:04 -0000

Hello everyone. I have xml document with structure like this: pts table rows row p00="some_id" p01="some_1 value_1" row p00="some_id_2" p01="some_2 value_2" rows table pts I need to get value from attribute from attribute p01. I try this command: xmlstarlet sel -T -t -v "/pts/table/rows/row/@p01" file.xml. And get value i need, but all values split by whitespace like this: "some_1" "value_1" "some_2" "value_2" but i need it like this "some_1 value_1" "some_2 value_2".

qweasd modified a comment on discussion Help

qweasd — Fri, 19 May 2023 11:38:44 -0000

Hello everyone. I have xml document with structure like this: pts table rows row p00="some_id" p01="some_1 value_1" row p00="some_id_2" p01="some_2 value_2" rows table pts I need to get value from attribute from attribute p01. I try this command: xmlstarlet sel -T -t -v "/pts/table/rows/row/@p01" file.xml. And get value i need, but all values split by whitespace like this: "some_1" "value_1" "some_2" "value_2" but i need it like this "some_1 value_1" "some_2 value_2".

qweasd modified a comment on discussion Help

qweasd — Fri, 19 May 2023 11:38:10 -0000

Hello everyone. I have xml document with structure like this:

qweasd posted a comment on discussion Help

qweasd — Fri, 19 May 2023 11:37:31 -0000

Hello everyone. I have xml document with structure like this:

Sebastian Pipping posted a comment on merge request #6

Sebastian Pipping — Fri, 12 May 2023 16:43:13 -0000

Thanks for this fix, I have applied it now in Gentoo Linux https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/commit/0f0ba1c7b1f617b17eb0b946a5f63e92b3320a01

Noam Postavsky posted a comment on discussion Help

Noam Postavsky — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 14:16:34 -0000

For the xml you posted I would go with xmlstarlet sel --noblanks --text -t -m //item -v title -v description weewx_rss-xx.xml, but the RSS you linked looks a bit different, so it looks like just xmlstarlet sel --noblanks --text -t -v //item weewx_rss.xml would work.

jon fear posted a comment on discussion Help

jon fear — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 18:38:50 -0000

Hi I need to extract a simple line of text from an xml file generated by my weather software. I can then present this as a variable to ffmpeg to introduce a timestamp on a video. I am a total code noob who just does not get most code so please be gentle! The xml is: Snip: Weather Conditions at 11/04/23 18:20:00 http://www.wslwx.co.uk Outside Temperature: 7.8°C; Barometer: 998.4 hPa; Wind: 6 mph from 142°; Rain Rate: 1.7 mm/h; Garage Temperature: 12.7°C ...

Andrés Maldonado created merge request #7 on Code

Andrés Maldonado — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 16:24:13 -0000

Fix --comp option

Piotr Winiarczyk created ticket #128

Piotr Winiarczyk — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 18:54:18 -0000

Too aggressive RegExp in documentation

Khem Raj created merge request #6 on Code

Khem Raj — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 22:55:20 -0000

Fix build with clang16

Corporativo posted a comment on discussion Help

Corporativo — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 13:20:27 -0000

The correct sintax to replace in this case is with "-x" instead "-v" to eval expressions. Regards.

Corporativo modified a comment on discussion Help

Corporativo — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 12:15:49 -0000

Hi, I'm trying to concat values in Windows OS and the result is the string without processing, with quote or double quotes. For example: xml.exe edit --inplace -N xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" -u "//xmlns:groupId[starts-with(., 'org.company')]" -v "//xmlns:groupId[concat(substring-before(., 'org.company'), 'new', substring-after(., 'org.company'))]" pom.xml Result: urn:cen.eu:en16931:2017#compliant#urn:xoev-de:kosit:standard:xrechnung_2.1

Ken modified a comment on ticket #123

Ken — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 20:26:52 -0000

I just ran into this bug. Is there a plan to fix it? Is there a workaround? I'm running xmlstarlet version 1.6.1 compiled against libxml2 2.9.4, linked with 20904 compiled against libxslt 1.1.29, linked with 10129

Ken posted a comment on ticket #123

Ken — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 20:25:40 -0000

I just ran into this bug. Is there a plan to fix it? Is there a workaround?

gold holk modified a comment on discussion Developers

gold holk — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 07:25:25 -0000

It is good to have namespace for xml, but specify namespace in xpath is troublesome. In xslt 2.0, one can specify default namespace for xpath, but libxml2 does not support xslt 2.0. In xmlstarlet, one can use --doc-namespace, and _ will refer to the default namespace, but it is still troublesome to write every element with prefix. This patch add a --ignore-default-namespace option, which work in xml select and xml edit. This option will remove default namespace in xml tree, so xpath without prefix...

gold holk posted a comment on discussion Developers

gold holk — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 07:24:33 -0000

It is good to have namespace for xml, but specify namespace in xpath is troublesome. In xslt 2.0, one can specify default namespace for xpath, but libxml2 does not support xslt 2.0. In xmlstarlet, one can use --doc-namespace and _ will refer to default namespace, but it is still troublesome to write every element with prefix. This patch add a --ignore-default-namespace option, which work in xml select and xml edit. This option will remove default namespace in xml tree, so xpath without prefix can...

Ignacio Valdes posted a comment on discussion Help

Ignacio Valdes — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 18:40:17 -0000

Also elements such as for example same desired output: 20210506183519

Ignacio Valdes posted a comment on discussion Help

Ignacio Valdes — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 18:20:02 -0000

Hi I am trying to extract all the time values from a set of xml files. I am confused at the proper syntax. Can anyone help? Examples of entries with time values are as follows: The result I want is: 20210506183519 20210101000000 20211231235959 The proper syntax for this is eluding me. I've fumbled around a lot without success such as: xmlstarlet sel -N x="urn:hl7-org:v3" -t -c //x:effectiveTime -v...

Gilles posted a comment on discussion Help

Gilles — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 19:43:19 -0000

Hello, I'm only getting started with XPath, know nothing about XSLT, and was wondering if I could use XmlStarlet to perform the following tasks on KML files: If the file contains… 1. A /kml/Document/name, change its value to the filename (eg. myfile.kml); If the element/node doesn't exist, insert one 2. One or more LineString (track) elements, insert a sibling: 3. One or more Point (waypoints), insert a sibling: #placemark-green...

Drey Tee posted a comment on ticket #117

Drey Tee — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 16:03:43 -0000

Totally agree. Usage example from stackoverflow uses xmlstarlet binary name whereas built from source version on my ubuntu has 'xml' name which is a bit frustrating.

Oliver Mangold posted a comment on discussion Help

Oliver Mangold — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 10:34:34 -0000

I find that the above sequence will not be handled corrently by the 'unesc' command: echo '"' | xmlstarlet unesc entity name too long: " " It looks to me like the length check is one-off. The patch below works for me, but not 100% sure that it doesn't create a buffer overrun. --- src/xml_escape.c.orig 2021-01-09 11:26:11.363863708 +0100 +++ src/xml_escape.c 2021-01-09 11:26:17.678959009 +0100 @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ semicolon_off++; } entity_len = semicolon_off - i; - if (entity_len < MAX_ENTITY_NAME)...

Gregory House posted a comment on discussion Help

Gregory House — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 03:41:18 -0000

Hello everyone. I need help: I have an XML file with this structure:

Nintendo - GameCube Nintendo - GameCube - Discs (1866) (2019-01-17 00-50-37) 2019-01-17 00-50-37 2019-01-17 00-50-37 redump.org redump.org http://redump.org/...

Dimiter Naydenov posted a comment on discussion Developers

Dimiter Naydenov — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 17:35:43 -0000

Just a heads-up. The last release (xmlstarlet v1.6.6) I just pushed to https://pypi.org/project/xmlstarlet works quite nicely. I'm happy to say (after a lot of trial and error) I got the building of binary wheels for Python 3.6+ on Linux, MacOS, and Windows automated. P.S. Building on Windows proved quite challenging, I have to say. I got a MingGW64-based build to work using the master branch's mingw/GNUmakefile as a starting point, modified to use pre-built binaries of libxml2 / libxslt for x86_64...

Constantin Mitricuna-Poenaru posted a comment on discussion Help

Constantin Mitricuna-Poenaru — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 11:50:42 -0000

Hello, we are not able to execute xml starlet commands in our project. We have got the following error: .:/tmp>/usr/bin/xml sel -T -t -v '///MetaData[1]/MessageGroup[1]' datafileexample.xml datafileexample.xml:52: error: xmlSAX2Characters: huge text node: out of memory* According to my research the problem seems to be in the library libxml2. Is there any possibility for xml starlet to cope with this problem? xmllint has a command line parameter that allows it to overcome the limit of 10 MG for XML...

waldo kitty posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

waldo kitty — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 00:04:35 -0000

given the attached xml file, can xmlstarlet follow the "include=" and also load that/those files to work with?

Hugh McMaster created ticket #21

Hugh McMaster — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 11:37:55 -0000

Use PKG_CHECK_MODULES to find libxml2 and lib(e)xslt

Lajos Vasz posted a comment on discussion Help

Lajos Vasz — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 10:41:38 -0000

Hi, could anyone help if how is it possible to validate around 200 documents at once against XSD? Thank you in advance

Dimiter Naydenov posted a comment on discussion Developers

Dimiter Naydenov — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:46:46 -0000

It's working - I have binary wheels published for Linux and MacOSX, as well as the source distribution. It took some time to get all the details right, but I'm happy to report it works as expected.

Dimiter Naydenov posted a comment on discussion Developers

Dimiter Naydenov — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 11:09:25 -0000

Hello! Thank you for the great tool! I've been using it a lot for XML processing from Python, as an external tool. Lately I've been looking for a way to use it more efficiently, and managed to get working CFFI-based Python extension that allows direct access to the main functions of all commands from Python. Here's the repository: https://github.com/dimitern/xmlstarlet There seems to be some issues to publish Linux binary wheels on https://pypi.org, but locally it works on Linux and Mac OS X at least....

Vishal posted a comment on discussion Help

Vishal — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 05:52:21 -0000

Thank you the solution worked!!

Noam Postavsky posted a comment on discussion Help

Noam Postavsky — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 12:40:37 -0000

See http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/doc/UG/ch05.html

Vishal posted a comment on discussion Help

Vishal — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 07:03:13 -0000

I have package.xml as follows HeatMap ApexPage 38.0 and i am trying to add new members element using the following command xml ed -s "/Package/types[name='ApexPage']" -t elem -n members -v "DreamHouseSampleData" package.xml Expected Result: HeatMap...

Jean-Francois Raymond modified a comment on discussion Help

Jean-Francois Raymond — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 02:57:50 -0000

Hi, I'm trying to modifiy the Value Office2010Blue in this document... so far any command I tried end with no error but still the file is not updated... I need to change the value to Office2010dark but my knowledge in xml is not good enough to understand what I need to do. I fiddled with xml.exe a bit an read a whole bunch of infos but I can't find what i miss... xml ed -L -u "/Root/key[1]/key[2]/ValueKey[1][@Name=ActiveSkin]/@value" -v "Office2010dark" AppRegistry.xml Don't laugh ;)

Jean-Francois Raymond modified a comment on discussion Help

Jean-Francois Raymond — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 02:54:44 -0000

Hi, I'm trying to modifiy the Value Office2010Blue in this document... so far any command I tried end with no error but still the file is not updated... I need to change the value of Office2010Light but my knowledge in xml is not good enough to understand what I need to do. I fiddled with xml.exe a bit an read a whole bunch of infos but I can't find what i miss... xml ed -L -u "/Root/key[1]/key[2]/ValueKey[1][@Name=ActiveSkin]/@value" -v "Office2010dark" AppRegistry.xml Don't laugh ;)

Jean-Francois Raymond posted a comment on discussion Help

Jean-Francois Raymond — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 18:11:35 -0000

Thanks a million This fixed everything. xml ed -L -u "/Root/Key[1]/Key[2]/ValueKey[1][@Name='ActiveSkin']/@Value" -v "It Worked !!!" AppRegistry.xml

Noam Postavsky posted a comment on discussion Help

Noam Postavsky — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 22:41:49 -0000

... "/Root/key[1]/key[2]/.../@value" ... Node names are case-sensitive, so use Key and Value. ... "/Root/...[@Name=ActiveSkin]..." You want to compare against string value, so use @Name='ActiveSkin'.

Jean-Francois Raymond modified a comment on discussion Help

Jean-Francois Raymond — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 19:47:08 -0000

Hi, I'm trying to modifiy the Value Office2010Blue in this document... so far any command I tried end with no error but still the file is not updated... I need to change the value to Office2010Light but my knowledge in xml is not good enough to understand what I need to do. I fiddled with xml.exe a bit an read a whole bunch of infos but I can't find what i miss... xml ed -L -u "/Root/key[1]/key[2]/ValueKey[1][@Name=ActiveSkin]/@value" -v "Office2010dark" AppRegistry.xml Don't laugh ;)

Jean-Francois Raymond posted a comment on discussion Help

Jean-Francois Raymond — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 19:45:56 -0000

Hi, I'm trying to modifiy the Value Office2010Blue in this document... so far any command I tried end with no error but still the file is not updated... I need to change the value to Office2010Light but my knowledge in xml is not good enough to understand what I need to do. I fiddled with xml.exe a bit an read a whole bunch of infos but I can't find what i miss... xml ed -L -u "/Root/key[1]/key[2]/ValueKey[1][@Name=ActiveSkin]/@value" -v "Office2010dark" Conf.xml Don't laugh ;)

Neophytus Incognito posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Neophytus Incognito — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 00:09:38 -0000

Using XMLStarlet 1.6.1, what is the best practice to replace a substring in a value? For instance I'd like to modify an attribute's value: http://www.domain.com/cgi?param1=foo&param2={bar} in order to receive: http://www.domain.com/cgi?param2={bar} (A separate problem might be the "&" char of "&", at least it can be tricky in a cmd environment.) Is there a straightforward method like s/param1=foo&// to apply?

Trevor North posted a comment on ticket #108

Trevor North — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 22:02:00 -0000

Seems i hit the same issue and in searching for the fix, came across this old bug report. I tried to use my original sed but seems the comment lost something in translation (at least the ([^ ]) should have a tab in there but still it doesnt work and i cannot remember how it should be. Luckily, i found this alternative below which works so just wanted to update here in case anyone else is looking for this fix. sed -E 's#<([^/ ]+)/>#<\1>#g' filename.xml > filename,new From https://unix.stackexchan...

William Crosmun modified a comment on discussion Help

William Crosmun — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 20:09:55 -0000

cat sample.xml cat sample.xml | xml ed -s '//permission[@name="android.permission.WRITE_MEDIA_STORAGE"]' -t elem -n 'group gid="sdcard_all"' | xml ed -s '//permission[@name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"]' -t elem -n 'group gid="sdcard_r"' | xml ed -s '//permission[@name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"]'...

William Crosmun modified a comment on discussion Help

William Crosmun — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 18:44:40 -0000

cat sample.xml cat sample.xml | xml ed -L -s '//permission[@name="android.permission.WRITE_MEDIA_STORAGE"]' -t elem -n 'group gid="sdcard_all"' | xml ed -L -s '//permission[@name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"]' -t elem -n 'group gid="sdcard_r"' | xml ed -L -s '//permission [@name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"]'...

William Crosmun modified a comment on discussion Help

William Crosmun — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 18:17:50 -0000

William Crosmun posted a comment on discussion Help

William Crosmun — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 18:17:13 -0000

cat sample.xml cat sample.xml | xml ed -L -a '//group[@gid="sdcard_rw"]' -t elem -n 'group gid="sdcard_all"' -v ""

Ernst de Haan posted a comment on ticket #125

Ernst de Haan — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 06:30:05 -0000

Thanks Noam! That works. Would be good to explain that in the help output. I think this ticket can be closed now.

Noam Postavsky posted a comment on discussion Help

Noam Postavsky — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 21:45:35 -0000

' being replaced by ' in the output xml. Any ideas why this is occuring Xmlstarlet works by reading in and parsing the XML data into a tree, in parsed form there is no distinction between ' and ' . and how I can avoid it from happening? Don't use Xmlstarlet.

Noam Postavsky posted a comment on ticket #125

Noam Postavsky — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 21:37:47 -0000

Use - to indicate stdin, e.g., cat a.xml | xmlstarlet val --xsd b.xsd --err -

Ernst de Haan created ticket #126

Ernst de Haan — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:25:08 -0000

xmlstarlet val: Consistent message order

Ernst de Haan posted a comment on ticket #125

Ernst de Haan — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:19:59 -0000

Workaround I'm using (inside a Dockerfile): mkdir -p /io cat > /io/input.xml xmlstarlet validate --xsd "$1" --err /io/input.xml

Ernst de Haan created ticket #125

Ernst de Haan — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 17:26:00 -0000

Allow val to read from stdin

Eric Smith modified a comment on discussion Help

Eric Smith — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 14:39:19 -0000

I'm running some commands to delete specific nodes, but I've noticed that other lines in my xml files are being affected, specifically I've seen'being replaced by ' in the output xml. Any ideas why this is occuring and how I can avoid it from happening? Thanks. Running this command:xml ed -d "/xml/table/rec[@id='2']" xml/table.xml Input XML value a b That's...

Eric Smith modified a comment on discussion Help

Eric Smith — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 14:38:54 -0000

a b That's...

Eric Smith posted a comment on discussion Help

Eric Smith — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 22:38:38 -0000

123 String Value 346 Text...

林博仁(Buo-ren Lin) modified a comment on discussion Developers

林博仁(Buo-ren Lin) — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 15:18:51 -0000

The 1.6.1 release of the snap is now published to the stable channel, here's the updated install instructions: sudo snap install xmlstarlet I will file a merge request to upstream the packaging in the near future.

林博仁(Buo-ren Lin) modified a comment on discussion Developers

林博仁(Buo-ren Lin) — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 15:18:39 -0000

The snap is now published to the beta channel, here's the updated install instructions: # Install the snap package # sudo snap install --channel=beta xmlstarlet # Connect the snap to optional security confinement interfaces # ## For accessing files under `/mnt` or `/media` ## sudo snap connect xmlstarlet:removable-media # Launch the application # xmlstarlet snap run xmlstarlet # If you have another existing installation xmlstarlet.xml # You can also run `xml` directly after running `sudo snap alias...