[TriLUG] OT: Query/edit XML file

Robert Dale robdale at gmail.com
Mon Apr 20 14:19:37 EDT 2009


On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Matthew Opoka <matthew at opoka.name> wrote:
>
> My application dumps a rather large XML file with DTD headers and I need to query(regex) and edit the file so it can be re-imported.  Does anyone know the easiest and best way to accomplish this task other than with vi line by line?
> The query would be something like this:
> Search for objects with type=hosts and name=hostname and value=HOSTA  where hostname only has one value.  If found, then add a new lower case variation(hosta) value and update the object action from declared to updated.
>

That's exactly what XSLT does.


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Robert Dale

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