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This is an old revision of CommandXed made by DavidLee on 2009-01-03 07:14:25.
Command xpath
Name
xed evaluate an XPATH expression and edits every matching node outputing the result documentSynopsis
xpath [-f xpath-file] [-i input] -r replace [-n] [-e xpath-expr | -matches matches-expr] [-v name value [name value ...]]Description
-f xpath-file read xpath expression from file-i input use input as the source xml document, otherwise stdin
if input is an XML expression then use it directly (dont treat as filename).
-r replace 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.
matches-expr XSLT matches expression
-v Read remaining pairs of arguments as name/value pairs to assign as xpath variables
Example
$ xed -i file.xml -r text //node
Return Value
Returns 0 if the the xpath expression executed successfully. otherwise 1CategoryCommands
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