XML

• Creating XML Documents with Python

CLI parsers

python-yq/xq

• GitHub
• xq docs
• Depends on jq
• Best XML parser so far
• Downside: Arch package yq conflicts with Arch package go-yq
  • Solution: Install locally in Python venv, or globally with pipx install yq

Usage

List all recently used files:

xq -r '.xbel.bookmark[]."@href"' ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel

sibprogrammer/xq

• Github
• AUR package

Usage:

xq -x /user/@status

curl https://storage.googleapis.com/versatiles/ | xq
curl https://storage.googleapis.com/versatiles/ | xq -x '/ListBucketResult/Contents/Key'

xmlstarlet

• Website
• Last commit: 2018
• Includes xmllint

sudo pacman -S xmlstarlet