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"Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@microsoft.com> writes:
> I think there is another big gap that HST people run into, which is
> that most of the existing HST tools for Unix are based on text files
> that are delimited by LF. Things like grep, cut, and wc are
> workhorses of HST, but totally inapplicable to XML. A set of
> similar command-line tools that operate on XPath instead of LF would
> be a huge help in encouraging adoption of XML, I think.
You might find the LT XML toolkit [1], which was designed to provide
exactly this sort of UNIX-style command line flexibility and
composibility, worth a look.
"The LT XML tool-kit includes stand-alone tools for a wide range of
processing of well-formed XML documents, including searching and
extracting, down-translation (e.g. report generation, formatting),
tokenising[, counting] and sorting."
ht
[1] http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/software/xml/
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