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This is an old revision of CommandXpath made by DavidLee on 2008-10-25 11:44:41.

 

Command xpath


Name

xpath evaluate an XPATH expression and print the result

Synopsis

xpath [-f xpath-file] [-i input-file] [-n] [-q] 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).
-n do not use a source context
[-q] xpath-expr xpath expression

-v Read remaining pairs of arguments as name/value pairs to assign as xpath variables

Note that the "-q" is optional. It is only required if you need to specify both -n and -v
Examples
xpath-n -q expr -v variable some-value



Example

$ xls | xpath '//file[1]/@name'
name=".classpath"

Return Value

Returns 0 if the the xpath expression executed successfully and a non-empty result is returned. otherwise 1


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