xpe 1.0.8

A versatile commandline xpath parser

# xpe

Finally, a commandline xpath tool that is easy to use.

*What is this?*

xpe is a commandline xpath parser. Pipe in some textual data, supply it with an xpath expression, and it will dump the result to stdout. Perfect for shellscripting. For example:

curl -sL github.com | xpe “//meta[@name=’twitter:title’]”

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Alternatively, xpe can query a file for xpath expressions like so:

xpe ‘//a/@href’ somefile.htm

The order doesn’t matter, so the following is also valid:

xpe somefile.htm ‘//a/@href’