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NAME

       xmlstarlet - command line XML/XSLT toolkit

SYNOPSIS

       xmlstarlet [<options>] [<command>] [<cmd-options>]

INTRODUCTION

       XMLStarlet is a set of command line utilities (tools) which can be used
       to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and  files  using
       simple  set  of shell commands in similar way it is done for plain text
       files using UNIX grep, sed, awk, diff, patch, join, etc commands.  This
       set  of  command line utilities can be used by those who deal with many
       XML documents on UNIX shell command prompt as well as for automated XML
       processing with shell scripts.

OPTIONS

       --version
              Display the version of xmlstarlet.

       --help Display help.

COMMANDS

       Type: xml <command> --help <ENTER> for command help

       Available commands include:

       ed (or edit)
              Edit/update XML document(s).

       sel (or select)
              Select data or query XML document(s) (XPATH, etc).

       tr (or transform)
              Transform XML documents(s) using XSLT.

       val (or validate)
              Validate XML document(s) (well-formed/DTD/XSD/RelaxNG).

       fo (or format)
              Format XML document(s).

       el (or elements)
              Display element structure of XML document.

       c14n (or canonic)
              XML canonicalization.

       ls (or list)
              List directory as XML.

       esc (or escape)
              Escape special XML characters.

       unesc (or unescape)
              Unescape special XML characters.

       pyx (or xmln)
              Convert XML into PYX format (based on ESIS - ISO 8879).

       p2x (or depyx)
              Convert PYX into XML.

REFERENCES

       XMLStarlet  is a command line toolkit to query/edit/check/transform XML
       documents (for more information see http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/).

AUTHOR

       Mikhail Grushinskiy.