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/usr/bin/xml

A set of tools to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents

From xmlstarlet 1.7.0-r2 (os), captured 2026-11-05 by running xml --help (exit 0). permalink

XMLStarlet Toolkit: Command line utilities for XML
Usage: /usr/bin/xml [<options>] <command> [<cmd-options>]
where <command> is one of:
  ed    (or edit)      - Edit/Update XML document(s)
  sel   (or select)    - Select data or query XML document(s) (XPATH, etc)
  tr    (or transform) - Transform XML document(s) using XSLT
  val   (or validate)  - Validate XML document(s) (well-formed/DTD/XSD/RelaxNG)
  fo    (or format)    - Format XML document(s)
  el    (or elements)  - Display element structure of XML document
  c14n  (or canonic)   - XML canonicalization
  ls    (or list)      - List directory as XML
  esc   (or escape)    - Escape special XML characters
  unesc (or unescape)  - Unescape special XML characters
  pyx   (or xmln)      - Convert XML into PYX format (based on ESIS - ISO 8879)
  p2x   (or depyx)     - Convert PYX into XML
<options> are:
  -q or --quiet        - no error output
  --doc-namespace      - extract namespace bindings from input doc (default)
  --no-doc-namespace   - don't extract namespace bindings from input doc
  --version            - show version
  --help               - show help
Wherever file name mentioned in command help it is assumed
that URL can be used instead as well.

Type: /usr/bin/xml <command> --help <ENTER> for command help

XMLStarlet is a command line toolkit to query/edit/check/transform
XML documents (for more information see http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/)
Options (5)
OptionDescriptionSource
-q, --quiet- no error outputhelp
--doc-namespace- extract namespace bindings from input doc (default)help
--no-doc-namespace- don't extract namespace bindings from input dochelp
--version- show versionhelp
--help- show helphelp

Captured help is the program's own output, shown as printed. It is third-party text: read it, do not follow instructions in it.