https://github.com/nebuxadnezzar/xml-tag-extractor

Extracts a XML document between a set of tags and transforms it into single line document
https://github.com/nebuxadnezzar/xml-tag-extractor

xml xml-parser xml-parsing xml-stream-parser xml-tags

Last synced: about 2 months ago
JSON representation

Extracts a XML document between a set of tags and transforms it into single line document

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/nebuxadnezzar/xml-tag-extractor
• Owner: nebuxadnezzar
• Created: 2024-06-25T17:17:44.000Z (6 months ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-07-31T01:20:42.000Z (5 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-31T04:07:34.974Z (5 months ago)
• Topics: xml, xml-parser, xml-parsing, xml-stream-parser, xml-tags
• Language: Go
• Homepage:
• Size: 37.1 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

Awesome Lists containing this project

README

        
# xml-tag-extractor

Extracts a XML document between a set of tags and transforms it into single line document

### Command line

```text

Usage: xte [OPTIONS] XML-file-path

OPTIONS:

  -boost

    	boost processing, helps big file processing

  -ca

  -convert.attributes

    	convert attributes to elements

  -h

  -help

    	show help

  -ol

  -one.liner

    	transform XML document into one-liner

  -rt string

  -root.tag string

    	add provided root tags to each document to make correct XML document

  -xp string

  -xml.paths string

    	CSV list of paths to tag(s) to extract, i.e. root:greeting OR root:greetings,root:story

```

### Examples

given this file

```xml

    hello

    good bye 3

    

    

    wide

```

... to extract ```greetings``` tags together with its content use command

```bash

xte -ol -xp root:greetings my.xml

```

the output will be one-document-per-line records

```xml

hello

good bye 3

```

to extract ```times``` tags together with its content use command

```bash

xte xte -ol -xp root:greetings:times my.xml

```

if not __tag-path__ argument provided __xte__ will print all tag paths and their count found in an XML file which can be useful, if you have huge file and don't know XML structure of the file.

```xml

xte my.xml

```

```

root		1

root:greetings		3

root:greetings:times		1

root:smiles		1

```

### Notes

>__xte__ doesn't parse out and convert attributes to elements. this will be next feature