Shell script to extract strings between xml tags

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Can you please help me to extract strings between xml tags. xml input:

    <Name ns1:translate="yes">Overview</Name>
    <Title ns1:translate="yes">This is a book</Title>
    <Description ns1:translate="yes"/>
    <TextValue ns1:translate="yes">End</TextValue>

Expected output:

    Overview = Overview
    This is a book = This is a book
       =
    End = End

If you'll have to do more work with XML then you might want to use/learn XPath and XQuery. — Sicco
– Sicco, Commented Aug 7, 2012 at 10:12

Igor Chubin · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-07 09:50:06Z

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If you want just remove tags, you can do it this way:

$ sed 's/<[^>]*>//g'

If you want to repeat the text in tags, you need something like:

$ sed 's/.*>\([^<]*\)<.*/\1 = \1/g'

edited Aug 7, 2012 at 9:50

answered Aug 7, 2012 at 9:34

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Mandar Pande · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-08 07:29:38Z

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One suggestion: Please use PERL for XML read/extraction. PERL has many modules XML parsing modules [both SAX/DOM].

OR even Python is perfect choice for XML parsing.

answered Aug 8, 2012 at 7:29

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