In article <49ddd9dc$0$90276$14726298@n...>,
mlt <asdf@a...> wrote:
>Are there any applications that reads an XML file and let the user specify 
>(using eg. XPath) how the output should be generated and writes this to eg. 
>a text file? 

LT-XML 2 (http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/software/ltxml2) includes lxprintf
which can be used for simple tasks of this kind.  Here's an example
from the manual page:

       <products>
         <product price="3">Chicken</product>
         <product price="11.50">Lobster</product>
         <product price=".20">Apple</product>
         <product price="1.09">Milk (2 litres)</product>
       </products>

       lxprintf -e product "%-20s $%5.2f\n" . @price <prices.xml

              Print a list of products and their prices. The product name will
              be padded to appear at the left of a 20-character field, and the
              price  will  be  padded  to appear at the right of a 5-character
              field. The output is:

              Chicken              $ 3.00
              Lobster              $11.50
              Apple                $ 0.20
              Milk (2 litres)      $ 1.09

-- Richard
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