extracting nodes values with xmlstarlet

Question

i have this xml schema , what i want is how to extract the values of all the nodes one by one, using XMLStarlet , in shell script

     <service>
        <imageScroll>
           <imageName>Photo_Gallerie_1.jpg</imageName>
        </imageScroll>
        <imageScroll>
           <imageName>Photo_Gallerie_2.jpg</imageName>
        </imageScroll>
        <imageScroll>
           <imageName>Photo_Gallerie_3.jpg</imageName>
        </imageScroll>
      </service>

Answer 1

xmlstarlet sel -t -m "//imageName" -v . -n your.xml

output:

Photo_Gallerie_1.jpg
Photo_Gallerie_2.jpg
Photo_Gallerie_3.jpg

Is that what you needed?

• sel (select mode)
• -t (output template(this is pretty much required)
• -m (for each match of the following value)
  • "// (the double slash means it could be anywhere in the tree)
  • imageName (name of node you want)"
• -v (requests the value of an element in the current path) and the . represents current element in iteration (you could put the name of the node there but it's generally easier this way) and then the
• -n is to add a line for every value you match.