XMLStarlet

XMLStarlet is a free set of command-line utilities that can be used to transform, validate, query, and edit XML documents.

The XMLStarlet command-line tool is written in C and uses the libxslt and libxml2 libraries from http://xmlsoft.org.

What is new in this release:

• This version fixes a crash when trying to run pyx on nonexistent files and a boundary condition in the unescape command.
• The ed and sel commands can now refer to a document's top level default namespace with "_" or "DEFAULT" and give a friendly message if the user doesn't realize they need to specify namespaces.

What is new in version 1.4.2:

• This version fixes a crash in the pyx subcommand that occurred when it handled nodes with multiple attributes.

What is new in version 1.4.1:

• A crash with invalid editing operations has been fixed.
• The documentation can now be built from the tarball and installs to the correct place.
• The test suite has been made more forgiving of serialization differences between libxml2 versions.

What is new in version 1.2.1:

• A crash when libxml2 returned NULL nodeset result was fixed.
• "-" was being confused with --elif.
• The generated XSLT now contains the namespaces extracted from the first input file.
• -N is once again allowed after other options.
• Namespace values were being registered as prefixes.
• A segfault is avoided when asked to move namespace nodes.
• There was a missing newline in the ed --help message.
• The test scripts portability was improved.
• XML_SAVE_WSNONSIG is only used if libxml is version 2.7.8 or later.

What is new in version 1.2.0:

• This version implements --update --expr for the ed command.
• The ed and sel commands use top-level namespace definitions from first input file, which should remove the need to define namespaces on the command line with -N in most cases.
• Select exits with 0 only if the result is non-empty.
• The -Q option has been added to select, like grep's -q.
• This release adds column number and restores input context (lost in version 1.0.3) to error messages.
• It adds the --net option to c14n, ed, fo, and val.
• It removes --catalog from the tr --help message since it isn't actually supported.
• It adds --elif and --else to the sel --help message.

What is new in version 1.1.0:

• A bug was fixed for BSD and Mac OS X by checking that O_BINARY is declared before #including io.h.
• Several select command improvements were made: --elif and --else options, sorting on multiple fields, correct (for English) lexical sorting, and inclusion of only needed namespaces by the output stylesheet.
• Shared libxml and libxslt libraries are linked by default.
• Library version information was added to --version output.
• A directory argument for ls was added; the exit status indicates failure or success instead of file count.
• Xmlstarlet will now link with a libxml configured --without-sax1 and --without-legacy.

What is new in version 1.0.6:

• The c14n command now outputs linefeeds only in Windows as well.
• The --help text for ed now correctly describes the behavior of -P, -S, --pf, and --ps.
• Some subcommands' --help options were outputting the printf format string literally.

What is new in version 1.0.5:

• A bug in which stylesheets with CDATA nodes led to memory corruption was fixed.
• The test scripts now double "/" characters under msys to avoid path conversion; most tests now succeed in the mingw build.
• The --help option now prints to stdout and exits with success.
• There were some further tweaks in the tests and build system.

What is new in version 1.0.4:

• encode special XML characters in arguments (can now include quotes in xpath)
• non-zero exit code when input file is not found (Bug 3158488)
• ed with --pf/--ps options doesn't reformat output (Bug 3158490)
• exit() instead of segfault when trying to delete namespace nodes (Bug 1120417)
• added --disable-static-libs ./configure option to use shared libxml2 and libxslt
• non-recursive make
• use TESTS and XFAIL_TESTS for testing, nicer output