Brilliant! A while ago, Dan Lyke commented, Wouldn’t it be cool to be able to do gzip -dp phonelist.gnumeric | xmlsearch “select phonenumber, longdistanceprice from phonelist.person.work” | xmlsort “person.longdistanceprice”?
Well, here’s a step along that very road. xml2 converts XML into line-oriented name=value pairs, perfect for Perl, awk, grep or sed to mangle in the traditional UNIX style.
I can see this one coming in very handy!
It also points to Pyxie, which sounds similar — but I think I like the xml2 notation better.
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