Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >comp.text.xml Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - Re: Applications that read XML files? >Thread Next - Re: Applications that read XML files? Re: Applications that read XML files?To: NULL Date: 4/9/2009 2:29:00 PM Forgot to mention that I use Windows Vista. "Richard Tobin" <richard@c...> wrote in message news:grkmt1$2eiu$2@p...... > 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 > -- > Please remember to mention me / in tapes you leave behind. | ||||||
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