This is xsh - an XML Editing Shell ---------------------------------- Copyright (c) 2002 Petr Pajas xsh is a powerfull command-line XML (DOM) editing tool/programming language in the manner of Unix shell interpreters and line-oriented text editors like ed. It can be used either interactively or for batch-mode XML processing. Features: --------- - work with multiple DOM trees at once - XPATH navigation (filesystem-like) navigation within a DOM tree - copy/move nodes within a DOM tree or between two DOM trees - node deletion - node creation (element, attribute, text, cdata, comment, well-balanced chunk) - XPATH search and XML listing of nodes matched with XPATH - XPATH-based conditional statements, while statement - foreach statement allowing usage of relative XPATH expressions - command output filtering with unix pipe, for example xsh> list //word | grep [A-Z] | less to read a list all word elements containing chars from [A-Z] in less - use of system commands (!ls) like in ftp - XSLT transformation - validation - textual and node-list variables - user-defined procedures - access to perl and shell commands - extensive help - and more Instalation: ------------ Download and install all required perl modules. See INSTALL for a list. To install xsh itself, check PREFIX in config.mk and type `make install'. If you don't trust make-files, read INSTALL for details on manual installation. Usage: ------ run `xsh -i' from your terminal and type `help | less' to find out what to do next. Licence: -------- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: a) GPL - GNU General Public Licence - Version 2 See http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html or LICENCE file included in XSH distribution package b) the "Perl Artistic License" See Artistic file included in XSH distribution package