I have a Maven settings file at ~/.m2/settings.xml. I need to write some scripting that extracts the username and password from one of the server entries. I've tried using both "xmllint" and "xmlstarlet" using what I believe are the correct (different) command-line parameters for both of those. The result for both is just an empty string. There is no error, it just prints nothing. This is an excerpt of ~/.m2/settings.xml:

central
					...
					...
		
	...

This is working fine with Maven. For xmllint, I'm trying the following:

xmllint --xpath 'string(//server[id="central"]/username/text())' ~/.m2/settings.xml

For xmlstarlet, it is this:

xmlstarlet sel -T -R -D -t -v "//settings/servers/server[id='central']/username/text()" ~/.m2/settings.xml

Those are slightly semantically different, but I've tried several variations. All of these just print an empty string.

Example:

I'd like to select @id="cover" and media-type="image/*" and retrieve @href. My current "solution" seems to be...

xmlstarlet sel -t -m "//_:item[@id='$opf_cover_name']" -v @href -o '|' -v @media-type -n file.xml

...followed by some extremely messy splitting around the '|' character of the output. Does xmlstarlet have a substring function?

$ xmlstarlet --version
Version = 1.6.1
compiled against libxml2 2.9.4, linked with 20904
compiled against libxslt 1.1.29, linked with 10132

My situation is very specific, and I am a beginner with xmlstarlet. I have an XML file like the one below, which contains hundreds of entries.

2008-06-04 16:40
    Daniel
    New name of - Just an example.pdf
    Just an example.pdf

Where **root** = netbooks tag. **QUESTIONS** 1. I have the file hash 5a43dc3524, i want to take the **value** of **date**, that is 2008-06-04 16:40. What's the easiest way to do this? 2. Also, how to get the **attribute** id (that is 2) from **file** element? Again, I have the hash, just it.

The loop below finds all of the nodes where the value equals "DOWNLOADING" and grabs the value of the corresponding "bytesdownloaded" node. I was expecting adlBytesDL1 to equal 147333120 (from the first matched node); instead, it equals 147333120147329024 (node1 and node2 back to back). I assume I am putting my index in the wrong place, but I cannot figure out where it belongs. Any help is greatly appreciated. I have to use XMLSTARLET with Xpath 1.0. for ((i=0; i 2284879 InProgress true Sun, 30 Jun 2024 14:48:39 +0000 2284879 1 cefbabced653b2837ccd4bd906841390b1f87227 1869565324 http://servername.com/A13_13.26.9U3.zip DOWNLOADING Sun, 30 Jun 2024 14:48:39 +0000 0 false 147333120 1869565324 5 2284879 2 7e90e741c6ffd3476bdbae0262ff5a6aad49b925 1877973677 http://servername.com/A13_13.29.10U0.zip DOWNLOADING Sun, 30 Jun 2024 14:48:39 +0000 0 false 147329024 1877973677 5 ```

I'm able to add a new node with a custom fixed value to my XML file in this way, with xmlstarlet : xmlstarlet ed --subnode "/legge190/data/lotto" --type elem -n newsubnode \ -v "myvalue" But how to add a unique identifier? If I try to add a unique identifier using generate-id(.) xmlstarlet ed --subnode "/legge190/data/lotto" --type elem -n newsubnode \ -v "generate-id(.)" I do not have an id value, but the generate-id(.) string. Thank you

I have this command:

find . -iname '*.xml' | xargs xmlstarlet sel -N z="http://abc.com/article/1.0/ " \\
--var zgtag="SuperTag" -t -m "/z:profile-extension" -i "//z:tag='$zgtag'" \\
-n -f -o "," -v "count(//z:zgContextsAnonymTotal[z:tag='$zgtag'])" -o "," \\
-v "//z:zgContextsAnonymTotal/z:tag[.='$zgtag']/@z:timestamp" -o "," \\ 
-v  "count(//z:zgContextsREGTotal[z:tag='$zgtag'])" -o "," \\
-v "//z:zgContextsREGTotal/z:tag[.='$zgtag']/@z:timestamp" -o "," \\
-v "count(//z:zgContextsPremiumTotal[z:tag='$zgtag'])" -o "," \\
-v "//z:zgContextsPremiumTotal/z:tag[.='$zgtag']/@z:timestamp" | grep -v ^$

It does not work because the command version without variable (same value repeated instead of using $zgtag show results. What is wrong? **My investigation so far pointed out:** - It has to be --var zgtag="'SuperTag'" because without single quotes the compiled XSLT by xmlstarlet would produce the following variable declaration: `` which is obviously wrong, the single quotes are missing! - In the XSLT compiled by xmlstarlet I can see that the variable is NOT inserted correctely, e.g. I see this:

Then I used this version: --var zgtag="'SuperTag'" -m "/z:profile-extension" -i '//z:tag=$zgtag', now I get a correctly compiled XSLT debugging output of xmlstarlet:

However the output still is empty, the same script without the variable (SuperTag directly inserted into the script multiple times) works just fine. So there must be still a problem with this var-styled command. So any help welcome how to insert and use the defined variable correctly. The definition is not the problem, it's the usage of the variable in the xmlstarlet command.

When you follow the doc: xmlstarlet edit --help you can read that --var can be used to declare a XPath expression as a variable. Generating moc file: cat /tmp/file.xml x y EOF This one works, without variables: xmlstarlet edit \ --var xp '//elt/following::comment()' \ -a '//elt/following::comment()' -t elem -n p -v 'some new text' \ -a '//elt/following::comment()' -t elem -n p -v 'some other text' \ /tmp/file.xml This one doesn't edit with variables: xmlstarlet edit \ --var xp '//elt/following::comment()' \ -a xp -t elem -n p -v 'some new text' \ -a xp -t elem -n p -v 'some other text' \ /tmp/file.xml What does I miss to use variable?

My question is similar to [sed - Delete XML node containing certain element - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/72157/delete-xml-node-containing-certain-element) . Trying to implement the suggestions there has kept me busy all day, but I haven't managed to get anything to work, so I am posting a question. Within a bash script, I need to remove an entire ` element when the id attribute matches a given value. I'm actually using user-groups to do part of this. Say a user is **not** in the group folder_a; then the entire element with attribute id=".Folder_A"` should be deleted from config.xml. (I also delete the folder from disk.) My bash script looks like this: #!/bin/bash grouplist=$(groups $theuser); for foldername in '.Folder_A' '.Folder_B'; do grpnm="${foldername,,}"|sed -e 's/^.//' if ! [[ $grouplist =~ ${grpnm} ]]; then perl -0777 -pe "s|()|$1=~ /id=\"$foldername\"/?"":$1|gse" config.xml > config.xml rm -fr "$foldername" else echo "permitting access to ${foldername}" fi done The perl command is **not** working. It is just one of many variants I have tried. I also tried sed. I would prefer to use xmlstarlet, but I had even more trouble with it. **Edit** - I just found this answer: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/339089/393289 It helped me come up with this: xml ed -d '//configuration/folder[contains(@id,".Folder_A")]' config.xml I feel like I am closer now. (I tried to upvote that answer but I don't have enough rep yet.) However, I can't translate the attribute name into a bash variable yet due to the quote marks or something else. BTW, how do I make that perform an in-place edit (similar to the sed -i command) once I get it working? Here's an example config.xml file: basic 0 0 0 false false false 25 .stfolder basic 0 0 0 false false false 25 .stfolder false true 0 0 0 false false true 0 0 0 false 127.0.0.1:8384 98qewr0qe9r default 0 0 60 false 10 false -1 3 false 1800 true false 24 false 5 false false 10 0 ~/Sync/ 0 false auto 0 false false This is a config.xml example for syncthing.

I am using xmlstarlet to extract text from elements with a specific preceding sibling event. An example from the XML file:

11.134
    0.2
    CUER
  
  
    11.367
    1.26
    TARGETR
    379
    1
    YOU WIN!
  
  
    12.651
    2.65
    1
    YOU WIN!

From the example, I need to do the following: 1. print the onset of ` $DIR/output.stf ``` Though as written, the following code only displays the duration from the matched element rather than summing the duration of the two adjacent events. **Is the latter possible using xmlstarlet?** Thank you for your help!

I want to remove all the namespace attributes from the following XML. I have tried to remove xmlns using following command which does not change the input in anyway. xmlstarlet ed \ -N n="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:metadata" \ -d '/md:EntityDescriptor/@*[n:name()="xmlns"]' \ ' \ > ttt.xml Expected output:

One can download MediaWiki via a web browser GUI here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download The download link there isn't version agnostic (it changes any time a new version comes out), that makes it impossible to download by the same link because the link always changes. How could I still download the latest MediaWiki in a version agnostic way? How to "target" the dynamic download link from command line? Possibly some regex is needed but possibly not.

I have several hundred .xhtml files in a sub-directory(*) and I want to delete all DIVs with a specific class (and the entire contents of those DIVs - including other divs, spans, image and paragraph elements) from them. The DIV may appear zero, one, or more times at any arbitrary depth within each .xhtml file. The specific DIVs I want to delete are: Using the xml_grep utility from the perl [XML::Twig](https://metacpan.org/release/XML-Twig) module, I can run xml_grep -v 'div[@class="portlet solid author-note-portlet"]' file*.xhtml and it will remove all instances of that div from the .xhtml files and display the result on stdout. Exactly what I want, except for "display on stdout". If xml_grep had some kind of in-place edit option, that would be fine, I'd just use that....but it doesn't, so I'd have to write a wrapper script that used a temporary file or sponge and run xml_grep against each .xhtml file individually, which would be slow and tedious. Or I could hack a copy of xml_grep so that it could edit its input file(s). But I don't want to do either of these things, I want to use the existing tool which can already do this, I want to use xmlstarlet - it'll be faster, has in-place edit, and I won't have to run it once per filename. The trouble is that no matter what I try (and I have tried dozens of variations), I cannot figure out the correct xpath specification to delete a div with this class. e.g. I have tried: xmlstarlet ed -d "div[@class='portlet solid author-note-portlet']" file.xhtml and (with different quoting) xmlstarlet ed -d 'div[@class="portlet solid author-note-portlet"]' file.xhtml and xmlstarlet ed -d '//html/body/div/div/div[@class="portlet solid author-note-portlet"]' and dozens of other variations. None of them have resulted in any change to the xhtml output. This is the point at which I usually give up on xmlstarlet and write a perl script, but this time I'm determined to do it with xmlstarlet. So, what's the correct way to specify this div class for xmlstarlet? BTW, for one example .xhtml file (with two instances of this div, which happen to be at the same depth...which is fairly typical but not universal), xmlstarlet el -v says:

$ xmlstarlet el -v OEBPS/file0007.xhtml | grep author-note-portlet
html/body/div/div[@class='portlet solid author-note-portlet']
html/body/div/div[@class='portlet solid author-note-portlet']

--- (*) Not that it matters, but these .xhtml files are inside a .epub file(**) generated by the [FanFicFare](https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFare) plugin for [Calibre](https://calibre-ebook.com) - which downloads all chapters from books on various fiction web sites and turns them into an epub file (which is basically a zip archive containing XHTML and CSS files and maybe jpeg or gif files, along with a bunch of metadata files).