XED

a command line Xml EDitor.

Goal

• sort by tag
• edit inner text specified by tag

Example

• a KML exported from the FourSquare
• sort by updated time ascending (-s option)
• add updated time to description tag (-e option)
  • '$$' inside a string is replaced by the original inner text
  • function xpath_sdf(xpath, format1, format2) reformats date/time text using java.util.SimpleDateFormat

$ java -cp foo xed \
      -s "/kml/Folder/Placemark" "/kml/Folder/Placemark/updated/text()" asc datetime "EEE, d MMM yy HH:mm:ss Z" \
      -e "/kml/Folder/Placemark" "/kml/Folder/Placemark/description" "xpath_sdf('/kml/Folder/Placemark/updated/text()', 'EEE, d MMM yy HH:mm:ss Z', 'yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss') + ' | $$'" \
      in_file.kml

$ xmllint --format foo.kml > bar.kml

TODO

• splitter (wip?)
• bump all version of a dependency in my projects pom.xml