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This is xsh - an XML Editing Shell

xsh is a powerfull command-line XML (DOM) editing tool/programming language in the manner of Unix shell interpreters and line-oriented text editors like ed. It can be used either interactively or for batch-mode XML processing.

Features

work with multiple DOM trees at once
XPATH navigation (filesystem-like) navigation within a DOM tree
copy/move nodes within a DOM tree or between two DOM trees
node deletion
node creation (element, attribute, text, cdata, comment, well-balanced chunk)
XPATH search and XML listing of nodes matched with XPATH
XPATH-based conditional statements, while statement
foreach statement allowing usage of relative XPATH expressions
command output filtering with unix pipe, for example xsh> list //word | grep [A-Z] | less to read a list all word elements containing chars from [A-Z] in less
use of system commands (!ls) like in ftp
XSLT transformation
validation
textual and node-list variables
user-defined procedures
access to perl and shell commands
extensive help
and more

Instalation

Download and install all required perl modules. See INSTALL for a list. To install xsh itself, check PREFIX in config.mk and type `make install'. If you don't trust make-files, read INSTALL for details on manual installation.

Usage

run `xsh -i' from your terminal and type `help | less' to find out what to do next.

Licence

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either:

GPL - GNU General Public Licence - Version 2 See http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html or LICENCE file included in XSH distribution package
the "Perl Artistic License" See Artistic file included in XSH distribution package