xmltagcnt

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 2002-10-26
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NAME

xmltagcnt - count the tags in XML data file

SYNOPSIS

xmltagcnt -i input filename [-o output filename] [-z]

DESCRIPTION

Prints count of tags contained in XML data specified from the input in xmlTable format.

PARAMETERS

-i input filename: If a suffix of the filename is '.gz', the command acts as a filter, extracting the compressed file for processing. The command will read the file as standard input when "-i" is not specified.

FILE OPTIONS

-o output filename: If a suffix of the filename is '.gz', the command automatically returns the output data in zip archive. When "-o" is not specified, the result will sent to standard output.
-z zip archive: compress the standard output to zip archive. When the option "-o" is not given and "-z" is specified, the output will be compressed as zip archive.

USAGE

Input file - dat.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="euc-jp"?>
<purchase year="2001">
<title>Customer Purchase History </title>
<comment>Artificial data is used for demonstration purpose</comment>

  <CustomerID>

    <Date>

      <row no="1">

        <Amount>273</Amount>

      </row>

      <row no="2">

        <Amount>333</Amount>

      </row>

      <row no="3">

        <Amount>382</Amount>

      </row>

      <row no="4">

        <Amount>414</Amount>

      </row>

      <row no="5">

        <Amount>688</Amount>

      </row>

    </Date>

    <Date>

     <row no="1">

        <Amount>1023</Amount>

      </row>

      <row no="2">

        <Amount>315</Amount>

      </row>

Example 1. xmltagcnt -i dat.xml -o rsl.xt

Output file - rsl.xt:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="euc-jp"?>
<xmltbl version="1.00">
<header>
<field no="1">
<name>¥Ñ¥¹Ì¾</name>
</field>
<field no="2">
<name>·ï¿ô</name>
</field>
<recCnt>0</recCnt>
</header>
<body><![CDATA[
/purchase 2
/purchase@year 1
/purchase/CustomerID 1022
/purchase/CustomerID/Date 5971
/purchase/CustomerID/Date/row 38734
/purchase/CustomerID/Date/row@no 38733
/purchase/CustomerID/Date/row/Amount 38734
/purchase/title 2
/purchase/comment 2
]]></body>
</xmltbl>

BUG REPORT

If you find a bug in xmltagcnt, please send electronic mail to musashi@adm.osaka-sandai.ac.jp. Before sending a bug report, please verify that you have the lastest version of MUSASHI. Read this manual carefully to ensure the error is not caused by a quirk in the language.

AUTHORS

Yukinobu Hamuro, Naoki Katoh, Katsutoshi Yada, Stephane Cheung

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