NAME¶
xpath - a script to query XPath statements in XML documents.
SYNOPSIS¶
xpath [-s suffix] [-p prefix] [-q] -e query [-e query] ... [file] ...
DESCRIPTION¶
xpath uses the XML::XPath perl module to make XPath queries to any XML
document. The XML::XPath module aims to comply exactly to the XPath
specification at "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath" and yet allows
extensions to be added in the form of functions.
The script takes any number of XPath pointers and tries to apply them to each
XML document given on the command line. If no file arguments are given, the
query is done using "STDIN" as an XML document.
When multiple queries exist, the result of the last query is used as context for
the next query and only the result of the last one is output. The context of
the first query is always the root of the current document.
OPTIONS¶
Be quiet. Output only errors (and no separator) on stderr.
-s suffix¶
Place "suffix" at the end of each entry. Default is a linefeed.
-p prefix¶
Place "prefix" preceding each entry. Default is nothing.
BUGS¶
The author of this man page is not very fluant in english. Please, send him
(fabien@tzone.org) any corrections concerning this text.
See also
XML::XPath(3pm).
SEE ALSO¶
XML::XPath(3pm).
HISTORY¶
This module is copyright 2000 Fastnet Software Ltd. This is free software, and
as such comes with NO WARRANTY. No dates are used in this module. You may
distribute this module under the terms of either the Gnu GPL, or under
specific licencing from Fastnet Software Ltd. Special free licencing
consideration will be given to similarly free software. Please don't flame me
for this licence - I've put a lot of hours into this code, and if someone uses
my software in their product I expect them to have the courtesy to contact me
first.
Full support for this module is available from Fastnet Software Ltd on a pay per
incident basis. Alternatively subscribe to the Perl-XML mailing list by
mailing lyris@activestate.com with the text:
SUBSCRIBE Perl-XML
in the body of the message. There are lots of friendly people on the list,
including myself, and we'll be glad to get you started.
Matt Sergeant, matt@sergeant.org
This man page was added as well as some serious modifications to the script by
Fabien Ninoles <fabien@debian.org> for the Debian Project.