There’s always the XQuery approach
( example in xmlsh)
xquery -q ‘ distinct-values( //node-name(.) ) ‘
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David A. Lee
From: Uche Ogbuji [mailto:uche@ogbuji.net]
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 4:43 PM
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] element census tool?
Oh what the heck. I might as well offer a quick and dirty Amara [1] recipe.
import sys
import amara
from amara.lib.util import element_subtree_iter
from amara.xpath.util import abspath
doc = amara.parse(sys.argv[1])
top_prefixes = dict(doc.xml_select('*')[0].xml_namespaces)
for e in element_subtree_iter(doc):
print abspath(e, prefixes=top_prefixes)
attrs = dict(e.xml_attributes)
if attrs:
print '\t', attrs
So for example:
python element_census.py http://www.retards.org/library/technology/computers/programming/xml/example-xbel.xml | head
/xbel
{(None, u'version'): u'1.0'}
/xbel/title
/xbel/folder
{(None, u'folded'): u'yes'}
/xbel/folder[2]
{(None, u'folded'): u'yes'}
/xbel/folder[2]/title
/xbel/folder[2]/bookmark
{(None, u'href'): u'http://www.sciam.com/1999/0599issue/0599bosak.html'}
Pretty easy to tweak or format and details of report, etc.
In the example above I pass along a URL. You can also pass along a file name, if you like.
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