[problem]
You want to strip XML comments out of your XML file.
This should also work with HTML comments.
Very handy for spotting errors, especially in configuration files! 🙂
[/problem]
[solution]
In this example, I use pure shell commands to identify and remove comments.
Obviously it assumes comments are not embedded, within valid XML, but on their own line.
I’ve done some brief testing, appears to work fine so far.
Have n’t tried nested comments either. 🙂
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[example]
#!/bin/bash
[ $# -ne 1 ] && { echo "Usage: $0 file.xml"; exit 1; }
file=$1
[ ! -f $file ] && {
echo "$0: $file is not a file, exiting ..."; exit 1
}
flag=0
cat $file | while read line
do
[[ $(echo "$line" | grep -c -- '<!--') -eq 1 ]]
&& { flag=1 }
[[ $(echo "$line" | grep -c -- '-->') -eq 1 ]]
&& { flag=2 }
[ $flag -eq 0 ] && { echo "$line" } ||
[ $flag -eq 2 ] && { flag=0 }
done
exit 0
Drop me a comment, with your experiences of it.
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[reference]
[tags]Strip XML Comments, UNIX Coding School[/tags]
[/reference]
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