I have an xml file that contains the tag </w:rPr>
several times. It is used like this
<w:rPr><w:rFonts w:ascii="Symbol" w:hAnsi="Symbol" w:hint="default"/></w:rPr>
However the content between the tag itself is sometimes different. Could there be a way to use sed or something other to delete everything between <w:rPr>
and </w:rPr>
and then both tags as well?
The relevant namespace
xmlns:w="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main"
And part of the file itself (formatted, valid XML)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<w:numbering xmlns:wpc="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingCanvas" xmlns:cx="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2014/chartex" xmlns:cx1="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/9/8/chartex" xmlns:cx2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/10/21/chartex" xmlns:cx3="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/9/chartex" xmlns:cx4="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/10/chartex" xmlns:cx5="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/11/chartex" xmlns:cx6="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/12/chartex" xmlns:cx7="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/13/chartex" xmlns:cx8="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/5/14/chartex" xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" xmlns:aink="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2016/ink" xmlns:am3d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2017/model3d" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:r="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships" xmlns:m="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/math" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:wp14="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawing" xmlns:wp="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawing" xmlns:w10="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:w="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main" xmlns:w14="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordml" xmlns:w15="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2012/wordml" xmlns:w16cid="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2016/wordml/cid" xmlns:w16se="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2015/wordml/symex" xmlns:wpg="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroup" xmlns:wpi="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingInk" xmlns:wne="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordml" xmlns:wps="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShape" mc:Ignorable="w14 w15 w16se w16cid wp14">
<w:abstractNum w:abstractNumId="0" w15:restartNumberingAfterBreak="0">
<w:nsid w:val="FFFFFF89"/>
<w:multiLevelType w:val="singleLevel"/>
<w:tmpl w:val="CB2CEC0E"/>
<w:lvl w:ilvl="0">
<w:start w:val="1"/>
<w:numFmt w:val="bullet"/>
<w:pStyle w:val="Aufzhlungszeichen"/>
<w:lvlText w:val="ï‚·"/>
<w:lvlJc w:val="left"/>
<w:pPr>
<w:tabs>
<w:tab w:val="num" w:pos="360"/>
</w:tabs>
<w:ind w:left="360" w:hanging="360"/>
</w:pPr>
<w:rPr>
<w:rFonts w:ascii="Symbol" w:hAnsi="Symbol" w:hint="default"/>
</w:rPr>
</w:lvl>
</w:abstractNum>
<!-- ... -->
<w:abstractNum w:abstractNumId="16" w15:restartNumberingAfterBreak="0">
<w:nsid w:val="6F8046F9"/>
<w:multiLevelType w:val="hybridMultilevel"/>
<w:tmpl w:val="1F3A6CE4"/>
<w:lvl w:ilvl="0" w:tplc="DE32BBA8">
<w:start w:val="1"/>
<w:numFmt w:val="lowerLetter"/>
<w:lvlText w:val="%1)"/>
<w:lvlJc w:val="left"/>
<w:pPr>
<w:ind w:left="682" w:hanging="567"/>
</w:pPr>
<w:rPr>
<w:rFonts w:ascii="Arial" w:eastAsia="Arial" w:hAnsi="Arial" w:cs="Arial" w:hint="default"/>
<w:spacing w:val="-1"/>
<w:w w:val="100"/>
<w:sz w:val="22"/>
<w:szCs w:val="22"/>
<w:lang w:val="de-DE" w:eastAsia="de-DE" w:bidi="de-DE"/>
</w:rPr>
</w:lvl>
<!-- ... -->
<w:lvl w:ilvl="8" w:tplc="E4341C34">
<w:numFmt w:val="bullet"/>
<w:lvlText w:val="•"/>
<w:lvlJc w:val="left"/>
<w:pPr>
<w:ind w:left="7581" w:hanging="567"/>
</w:pPr>
<w:rPr>
<w:rFonts w:hint="default"/>
<w:lang w:val="de-DE" w:eastAsia="de-DE" w:bidi="de-DE"/>
</w:rPr>
</w:lvl>
</w:abstractNum>
<!-- ... -->
<w:num w:numId="1">
<w:abstractNumId w:val="15"/>
</w:num>
<w:num w:numId="2">
<w:abstractNumId w:val="6"/>
</w:num>
<!-- ... -->
</w:numbering>
Best Answer
Sure, it's a task for xmlstarlet (a proper XML parser) and his friend xpath, like this:
A bit of explanations :
-L
edit the file on the fly likesed -i
-N
set the XML namespace, if needed-d
remove nodes matchingxpath
expressionCheck
xmlstarlet edit --help
TL;DR
please, never ever use sed for this task !
Everytime you use
sed
forhtml
orxml
, you kill a kittytheory :
realLife©®™ everyday tool in a shell :
You can use one of the following :
xmllint often installed by default with
libxml2
, xpath1xmlstarlet can edit, select, transform... Not installed by default, xpath1
xpath installed via perl's module XML::XPath, xpath1
xidel xpath3
saxon-lint my own project, wrapper over @Michael Kay's Saxon-HE Java library, xpath3
or you can use high level languages and proper libs, I think of :
python's
lxml
(from lxml import etree
)perl's
XML::LibXML
,XML::XPath
,XML::Twig::XPath
,HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath
ruby nokogiri, check this example
php
DOMXpath
, check this exampleCheck: Using regular expressions with HTML tags