Request for Review: xmlstartlet

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazquez at ivazquez.net
Thu Jul 14 06:31:10 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 09:13 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 18:17 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >   Note that Ville Skyttä is pushing gdome2 to target xsh. In my opionion
> > xsh and xmlstartlet are competing, both are wrappers around libxml2 to
> > provide XML oriented scripting. I honnestly don't know which one might
> > be better or more complete.
> 
> Ah, I wasn't aware of xmlstartlet, need to take a look at it sometime.
> If it makes it into Extras or libxml2/libxslt sooner than xsh, and
> provides the same or "better" functionality, I could imagine dropping
> pushing xsh.

I took a quick look at xsh and it does seem to have a handy interactive
mode. I'm sure there's room for both xsh and xmlstarlet in Extras.

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>
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