Re: [xml] xmllint: accept XML input from stdin, please

[Alex Bligh <alex alex org uk>]

On 2 Jun 2014, at 07:06, Andrew Pennebaker wrote:

> xmllint would play much more nicely with other Unix tools if XML could be piped into stdin when needed. 
> Could the next version add this feature?

It can and has been able to for a good while.

$ xmllint --version
xmllint: using libxml version 20627
   compiled with: Threads Tree Output Push Reader Patterns Writer SAXv1 FTP HTTP DTDValid HTML Legacy C14N 
Catalog XPath XPointer XInclude Iconv ISO8859X Unicode Regexps Automata Expr Schemas Schematron Modules Debug 
Zlib
$ echo '<hello><there/></hello>' | xmllint --format -
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<hello>
  <there/>
</hello>

-- 
Alex Bligh