======Command xcat======

====Name====
**xcat** combine and concatenate XML files to a single XML document

====Synopsis====
xcat [ [[SerializationOptions serialization options]] ] [-w string|element ] [-r] [file ...]

====Description====
Concatenates one or more XML files into a single xml fiile.

||-w string ||Wraps each xml file with an element named "string"||
||-w element ||Wraps each xml file with the specified element||
||-r||Removes root element||

Supports the standard [ [[SerializationOptions serialization options]] ]

If no files are specified, then stdin is read.
If no file or one file is specified and no -w argument is given, the file is parsed and serialized without wrapping.
If a -w argument is given the the file is wrapped with a container element.
If the -r argument is specified then the root element is stripped from each file,
if -r is specified and no -w argument then if there is more then one file and/or more then one child of root then this produces an error.


====Streaming====
The xcat command is streamable. Input and output is created in streaming mode so there is no memory limit to how large the input or output documents can be.


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