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This tool dumps document fragments matched by an XPath expression from an XML document. It’s handy for shell script based manipulation of XML.

usage: xpathgrep [-w pfx:tag] [-n pfx:uri] [-e xpath] file.xml [...]
        -w  Name of document element to wrap all results; if you do not
            use a prefix, the element will be in the default namespace.
            If a wrapper is not requested, the results will be given
            individually.
        -n  Namespace to register for use in XPath; syntax is prefix,
            followed by the namespace URI, separated by a semicolon,
            eg. ``html:http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'' to bind the URI
            ``http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'' to the prefix ``html''. If
            you have requested a wrapper, all registered namespaces
            will also be declared on it. To declare a default
            namespace on the wrapper, register a namespace with an
            empty prefix, eg ``-e :http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml''.
        -e  An XPath expression; will be evaluated against each
            document. For a single expression you can omit the switch
            and just give it before any filenames.
        -h  This help.

        You can use a filename of ``-'' to denote standard input.

        Note that your output will probably have lots of redundant
        namespace declarations; libxml2 offers no easy way to clean
        them up at the time of writing. If you want to clean up a result
        document, pipe it to ``xmllint --nsclean -''.

The older version 0.2 is useful as a condensed example of using the libxml2 XPath API in C.

Download

Version 0.2

xpathgrep-0.3.tar.bz2

Version 0.2

xpathgrep-0.2.tar.bz2

Changelog

Changes in 0.3:

• The command line interface changed completely. The utility is now actually useful for more than the simplest of use cases.

Referenced in Introducing xpathgrep, xpathgrep 0.3.