You might also look into the command-line tool XMLStarlet. It can be
installed on macOS using Homebrew. I playing with it for 15 minutes and
here’s what I came up with for extracting data from your example:
`xml sel -t -m '//field' -v 'name(*[1])' -o $'\t' -v '*[1]' -o $'\t' -v
'value' -o $'\n' example.xml`
Output is:
```
key1 NAME John Appleseed
key2 Company Google
```
Documentation here: http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/doc/UG/
Hope this helps.
-sam
On 25 Feb 2020, at 3:24, Gustave Stresen-Reuter wrote:
Have you looked into xslt? That's really the tool you should be using
for
xml transformations. The learning curve is steep-ish but this is the
exact
use case it was designed for.
Have a look. The Mac confess with a command line tool called xsltproc
preinstalled that is normally more than sufficient for the types of
transformations. I usually pipe the output to bbedit for verification
of my
work when the transformation is complete.
Ted
On Mon, Feb 24, 2020, 6:50 PM Miguel Perez <maperezespin...@gmail.com>
wrote:
This could be an option too. Thank you.
Excel ended up not working in this case because while it reads the
file,
it has a weird formatting too and I cannot work with it much better.
The formula posted above works much better for me and is what I was
looking for.
El lunes, 24 de febrero de 2020, 12:12:16 (UTC-6), ThePorgie
escribió:
One other thing about a xml tool. The latest version of Mac Excel
will
now open xml. Just an fyi if that would work to get the names you're
looking for.
On Monday, February 24, 2020 at 11:44:36 AM UTC-5, Miguel Perez
wrote:
Hi,
I'm fairly new to RegEx and I need your help.
I process many XML files in my job. Most of them are formatted
correctly, that is:
<key1>Value</key1>
<key2>Value</key2>
For those I search for values using:
<key1>.*?</key1>
And it works like a charm.
But then I have this one source that formats its XML files with
CDATA
fields like this:
<field>
<key><![CDATA[NAME]]></key>
<value><![CDATA[John Appleseed]]></value>
</field>
In this example they are trying to say that the value *NAME* is
*John
Appleseed*. Rather than putting it as a key/value pair, they do
that
weird syntax.
What GREP pattern can I use to extract all the names for this
formatting?
I am open to other solutions, like BASH scripts and Applescript.
I'm
desperate.
Thank you for your help, friends.
🙂
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