Re: get data in xml do***ent

On Apr 2, 4:00 pm, Patrick <patrick.mor...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> hi to all,
> i've a xml do***ent as:
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE ElencoNomi>
> <ElencoNomi>
>  <!-- commento -->
>  <!-- -->
>  <!-- commento  -->
>
> <ch:names>
>         <ch:name>one</ch:name>
>         <ch:name>two</ch:name>
>         <ch:name>freel</ch:name>
>         <ch:name>four</ch:name>
>         <ch:name>five</ch:name>
>         <ch:name>six</ch:name>
>         <ch:name>seven</ch:name>
> </ch:names>
> </ElencoNomi>
>
> i would get the word between <ch:name> and </ch:name>.
> how can i do the get it in awk?
> thanks

One dirty quick hack would be: awk -F'[<>]' '/<ch:name>/{print $3}'

This does not work if the "word" contains a ">" character.

Hermann