Re: [CentOS] XML to text

2013-11-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Steve Campbell wrote: > Thanks for all the answers. And thanks to Les for understanding the > exact problem. I had Googled before asking. And yes, I found tons of > info, even started the W3W tutorial. I'm new to XML and it's conversions. > > My question was: is th

Re: [CentOS] XML to text

2013-11-11 Thread Steve Campbell
Thanks for all the answers. And thanks to Les for understanding the exact problem. I had Googled before asking. And yes, I found tons of info, even started the W3W tutorial. I'm new to XML and it's conversions. My question was: is there anything already in Centos that handles the conversion. No

Re: [CentOS] XML to text

2013-11-07 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 4:53 PM, wrote: > > Or, the point for the OP is, try googling for an answer before posting > Do some of the heavy lifting yourself. > You can't really blame someone for thinking there _must_ be an easier way to deal with things that are clearly text than the stuff you

Re: [CentOS] XML to text

2013-11-07 Thread m . roth
Or, the point for the OP is, try googling for an answer before posting Do some of the heavy lifting yourself. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] XML to text

2013-11-07 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: > >> Steve, >> >> Its pretty easy to do with XSLT... > > > For some definition of "easy," of course... :-) > > Still, I'd agree that XSLT is probably your best bet for a long-term > solution (as opposed to a simplistic regex match via a scriptin

Re: [CentOS] XML to text

2013-11-07 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Thu, 7 Nov 2013, Scot P. Floess wrote: Steve, Its pretty easy to do with XSLT... For some definition of "easy," of course... :-) Still, I'd agree that XSLT is probably your best bet for a long-term solution (as opposed to a simplistic regex match via a scripting language) because it all

Re: [CentOS] XML to text

2013-11-07 Thread m . roth
Steve Campbell wrote: > Is there anything offered in Centos that might convert an XML file to a > plain text file? > > My hopes are that it is flexible enough to make the following type of > line: > > Guide > > into something like: > > title: Guide > > along with all the other fields. It'd be nice

Re: [CentOS] XML to text

2013-11-07 Thread Scot P. Floess
Steve, Its pretty easy to do with XSLT... On Thu, 7 Nov 2013, Steve Campbell wrote: > Is there anything offered in Centos that might convert an XML file to a > plain text file? > > My hopes are that it is flexible enough to make the following type of line: > > Guide > > into something like: > >