I've seen this syntax several places (eg, here): xmllint --xpath '/plist/array/string/text()' tmp.xml, used to query a particular XML node using an xpath selector. However, I'm getting the error U...

I created the following XSD (with Eclipse): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <schema targetNamespace="http://www.example.com" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:tns="h...

The problem is that I am trying to validate an xml file using xmllint. On my machine (OSX 10f.7.5) it says the xml is invalid. When a co-worker tries it on his machine, it says it is valid. I am no...

I am using xmllint to do some validations and I have an XML instance document which needs to validate against two schemas: one for the outer "envelope" (which includes an any element) and one for t...

I am using xmllint to clean up my .xml file but for some reason the output adds <?xml version="1.0"?> to the first line. Is there a flag to have this be removed?

I have a local DTD file test.dtd. Content is : <!DOCTYPE coord [ <!ELEMENT coord (date)> <!ELEMENT date (#PCDATA)> ]> I'd like to validate an XML using xmllint. This XML has no...

I'm using xmllint in a bash script to perform an xpath on some data. The xpath will not always match against the data, and this is ok. From xmllint documentation: --xpath "XPath_expression" Run a...

I'm working on a tool to help a user author XHTML-ish documents which are similar in nature to JSP files. The documents are XML and can contain any well-formed tags in the XHTML namespace, and weav...

xmllint --xpath "//project" test.xml fails on <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <projects> <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"> <modelVersion>4.0.0...

I am using cygwin on a window 8 machine. When I type $ xmllint --format something.xml It says: -bash: xmllint: command not found How can I use xmllint with cygwin? Is there any other alternati...

I have an HTML page that is generated by an existing tool - I cannot change the output of this tool. However, I want to use xmllint with the --xpath option to pick out a few specific pieces of inf...

I'm trying to write a script that will look through a directory, find all the XML files, run them through xmllint, and save the formatted results to a file of the same name in a subdirectory called...

Command line xmllint --schema validation fails but $? returns 0 myinput.xml: <myinput><header>mytestvalue</header></myinput> myschema.xsd <xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http...

Trying to validate an XML document; however, xmllint is insisting on reading the options as the file so I'm getting FileNotFound exceptions. Just to confirm, I have the xmllint.exe in the same fold...

Is it possible (and if so, how) with xml_grep to get the value of a specific attribute from a specific element? I only seem to be able to output the information between tags. example: <eid&gt...

Using xmllint --shell, I execute chapter > cat * ------- <title>Getting to Know Penguins</title> ------- <abstract> <para>Penguins are cute.</para> </abstr...

By default xmllint appears to indent by 2 spaces, Is there a way to change the level of indentation on Windows?

I want to add an attribute to the tag, using xmllint. Can I do this is through xmllint?