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This is an old revision of CommandXed made by DavidLee on 2010-02-05 14:15:58.
Command xed
Name
xed evaluate an XPATH expression and edits every matching node outputing the result documentSynopsis
xed [ serialization options ] [options]Description
Options
| -i input -input input | use input as the source xml document, otherwise stdin
if input is an XML expression then use it directly (dont treat as filename). |
| -n | do not use a source context |
| -r replace expr -replace expr | replace expr. If replace is string then replace the child text of matching nodes, if replace is an XML expression then replace the matching node with the expression. |
| -d | Delete matching expression |
| -a expr -add expr | Adds the expression (string, element, attribute) to all matching nodes |
| -xpath xpath-expr -e xpath-expr | xpath expression |
| -matches matches-expr -m matches-expr | XSLT matches expression |
| -ren string -rename string | Renames the matching element or attribute to a new name |
| -v | Read remaining pairs of arguments as name/value pairs to assign as xpath variables |
Supports the standard [ serialization options ]
Examples
Replaces the the node matching the xpath express node with a text node "text" from the file "file.xml" , send to output.
xed -i file.xml -r text //node
Adds an attribute to all file elements
xed -a -matches file <[ attribute { "attr" } { "value" } ]>Deletes all nodes where the file[@name eq 'test']
xed -d -matches "file[@name eq 'test']"
Add the child element under the root element
xed -a <[ <child/> ]> -xpath /root
Replace the foo element with bletch
xed <[<bletch/>]> -e /root/foo2
Return Value
Returns 0 if the the xpath expression executed successfully. otherwise 1Commands
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