Re: [xml] path with xmllint

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:14:27AM -0500, John Davis wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml behnel de> wrote:
> > The DOS shell. You need to quote your parameters, as in
> >
> >    xmllint Foo.xml --xpath "/XXX/(one|two)/YYY"
> My apologies. I should have sent out the complete example so it shows
> that I am doing exactly that.
> =============
> C:\Users\davis\Documents\dbclass\xpath
> > xmllint BookstoreQ.xml --xpath "/Bookstore/ ( Book | Magazine )/Title"
> XPath error : Invalid expression
> /Bookstore/ ( Book | Magazine )/Title
>                   ^
> xmlXPathEval: evaluation failed
> XPath evaluation failure
>
> C:\Users\davis\Documents\dbclass\xpath

  Do either as Bjoern suggested or

xmllint BookstoreQ.xml --xpath "/Bookstore/Book/Title | /Bookstore/Magazine/Title"

not ideal but works

Daniel

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