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I am not sure I fully understand what you want to do. If you want to
just print out the text between tags, have you considered using XSLT? Do
you know what tags you are interested in? You would then need an xslt
processor such as xsltproc. Does you linux system have one installed?
There are also Perl modules that help with retrieving information from
xml files.
For the recursion, you could use a Perl script to get a list of all the
files, and then call the xslt processor from inside the perl script to
process each file.
Paul
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Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 1:21 PM
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Subject: Searching Text Files
I'm looking for a forum or group where I could work through a
particular problem. This list (techwr-l) may be a good choice. If not,
please recommend a list, group, or resource.
There is a directory of xml text files that I'd like to extract
information from, and output to a textfile. The information appears
between an open/close tag, for instance, <acroterm>SEC</acroterm>. Of
course there are a myriad of possibilities, so there must be some
wild-carding too. And then there is the recursion necessary to process
all files of a particular type, such as *.xml.
I know there are Windows programs I could buy to do this. However, I'd
prefer to stay with a command line solution, like Linux or DOS.
I'll continue searching.
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Ed
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