once you are getting familiar with XPath and XMLStarlet, you are using it for rather “ordinary tasks”

Areas, where you will want to make use of XPath expressions and xmlstarlet in order to extract details:

  • HTML web pages – if only more of them were proper XHTML! but xmlstarlet can even help you “tidying” improper HTML
  • RSS feeds and esp. podcasts – listing all the MP3 files referred to within the feed
  • various XML files …

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