NAME¶
hxremove - remove elements from an XML file by means of a CSS selector
SYNOPSIS¶
hxremove [
-i ] [
-l language ]
selector
DESCRIPTION¶
hxremove reads a well-formed XML document from standard input and writes
it to standard output without any elements that match the CSS selector that is
given as argument. For example
hxremove ol li:first-child
removes the first li (list item in XHTML) from every ol (ordered list).
Assumes that class selectors (".foo") refer to an attribute called
"class". And assumes that ID selectors ("#foo") refer to
an attribute called "id".
To handle HTML files, make them well-formed XML first, e.g., with
hxnormalize
-x.
Compare with
hxselect, which removes everything
but the selected
elements.
OPTIONS¶
The following options are supported:
- -i
- Match case-insensitively. Useful for HTML and some other SGML-based
languages.
- -l language
- Sets the default language, in case the root element doesn't have an
xml:lang attribute (default: none). Example: -l en
- -?
- Show command usage.
OPERANDS¶
The following operand is supported:
- selector
- A selector. Most selectors from CSS level 3 are supported, with the
exception of pseudo-classes, pseudo-elements and selectors with
last- in their name.
SEE ALSO¶
asc2xml(1),
xml2asc(1),
hxnormalize(1),
hxselect(1),
UTF-8 (RFC 2279)