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On Windows, look at PowerGrep (http://www.powergrep.com). It will do
regular expression searches.
Textpad could also work, as could Oxygen.
Scott
At 7:27 AM -0400 9/22/08, Ed wrote:
>Thanks for your comments, Paul. Let's say I am cut off from the XML
>backend at work, and simply have a collection of text files that
>happen to be XML. So, my first inclination was to find a solution for
>any group of text files.
>
>I'll look into the XSLT solution, and see if I have access to it on
>the job through our application. In addition, I'll see if xsltproc is
>on my solaris or ubuntu boxes at home.
>
>In the meantime, I appreciate any/all comments.
>
>Ed
>
>On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 6:38 AM, Inbar, Paul <paul -dot- inbar -at- intel -dot- com> wrote:
>> Hi Ed,
>>
>> 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
>
>--
>Ed
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