xmllint

XML parser and linter that supports XPath, a syntax for navigating XML trees. More information: <https://manned.org/xmllint>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/xmllint.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install libxml2-utils
Ubuntu
apt-get install libxml2-utils
Alpine
apk add libxml2
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S libxml2
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install libxml2-utils
CentOS
yum install libxml2
Fedora
dnf install libxml2
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libxml2-utils
OS X
brew install libxml2
Raspbian
apt-get install libxml2-utils
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/xmllint
Docker
docker run cmd.cat/xmllint xmllint powered by Commando

XML parser and linter that supports XPath, a syntax for navigating XML trees. More information: <https://manned.org/xmllint>.

  • Return all nodes (tags) named "foo":
    xmllint --xpath "//foo" source_file.xml
  • Return the contents of the first node named "foo" as a string:
    xmllint --xpath "string(//foo)" source_file.xml
  • Return the href attribute of the second anchor element in an HTML file:
    xmllint --html --xpath "string(//a[2]/@href)" webpage.xhtml
  • Return human-readable (indented) XML from file:
    xmllint --format source_file.xml
  • Check that an XML file meets the requirements of its DOCTYPE declaration:
    xmllint --valid source_file.xml
  • Validate XML against DTD schema hosted online:
    xmllint --dtdvalid URL source_file.xml

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