Re: [xml] Can xmllint format with in-place file saving?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 10:37:57AM -0400, mruhrbach aim com wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I run xmllint to format my XML file: xmllint --format file.xml
>
> The output goes to stdout, so I capture it in a file: xmllint
> --format file.xml > formatted.xml
>
> Now I replace the old with the new: mv formatted.xml file.xml
>
> Question: can this be done in one step? I imagine something like:
> xmllint --format --in-place file.xml, as is known form sed.

  xmllint -o res.xml tst.xml

I think

xmllint -o tst.xml --format tst.xml

should be safe as the parser will fully load the input into a tree
before opening the output to serialize it.

Daniel

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