Native shell command set to extract node value from XML
–format is used only to format (indent, etc) the document. You can do that using –xpath (tested in Ubuntu, libxml v20900): $ xmllint –xpath “//project/parent/version/text()” pom.xml 1.5.0
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curl and xmllint pipe
Seems that xmllint requires the – stdin redirect be at the end of the command. curl –location –header “Accept: application/rdf+xml” http://www.test.com \ | xmllint –format –xpath ‘//title’ –
Installing xmllint
I had the same problem and it took me two hours to make it work. Download iconv, libxml2, libxmlsec, and zlib from [ftp://ftp.zlatkovic.com/libxml/][1] Extract the zip file then copy all the files in the bin folder of each download. Paste the files in a folder (mine = XML) Add the C:\folderName (mine = C:\XML) in … Read more
How to get Xmllint to read from stdin?
I had a similar issue where I had to unzip an XML file then feed it to xmllint. The key is the “-” option which tells xmllint to read from stdin. For example: $ bzip2 -dc dierehabilitati00delagoog_meta.xml.bz2 | xmllint –format would fail giving the “usage” for xmllint. Adding “-” worked: $ bzip2 -dc dierehabilitati00delagoog_meta.xml.bz2 | … Read more
No matching global declaration available for the validation root
You need to change your XML instance. Your current one says that there is a type called description in the namespace http://www.namespace.org/recipe. However, in your XSD definition, the only types exposed in that namespace are called recipe and descriptionType. So either define a type called description in the XSD schema, or change your instance so … Read more
how to Validate a XML file with XSD through xmllint [duplicate]
Figured it out, had to use –schema instead of –validate. xmllint –schema yourxsd.xsd yourxml.xml –noout The –noout makes sure your code in XSD and XML doesn’t show. With this option you will only see the Validation Errors.
xmllint failing to properly query with xpath without namespaces
I don’t use xmllint, but I think the reason your XPath isn’t working is because your doc.xml file is using a default namespace (http://purl.org/net/ulf/ns/0.4-02). From what I can see, you have 2 options. A. Use xmllint in shell mode and declare the namespace with a prefix. You can then use that prefix in your XPath. … Read more