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This is an old revision of CommandXpath made by DavidLee on 2008-07-04 09:13:42.
Command xpath
Name
xpath evaluate an XPATH expression and print the resultSynopsis
xpath [-f xpath-file] [-i input-file] [-n] xpath-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).
xpath-expr xpath expression
-v Read remaining pairs of arguments as name/value pairs to assign as xpath variables
Example
$ xls | xpath '//file[1]/@name' name=".classpath"
Return Value
Returns 0 if the the xpath expression executed successfully. otherwise 1CategoryCommands