Remove attribute & matched node at once-CodePudding

I try remove attribute and child at once from xml like:

<xml>
  <node attribute="name">
    <child>name</child>
  </node>
</xml>

to expected result like

<xml>
  <node>
  </node>
</xml>

depending on child value.

Is it even possible?

CodePudding user response：

You probably can; try using

xml ed -d '//node[child["name"]]/@attribute'  -d  '//node/child["name"]' file.xml

The first part deletes (-d) the attribute attribute of the node node which itself has a child child node with a name text value; the second -d deletes the 'child` node itself.

CodePudding user response：

Inspired by Jack, this is working solution:

xml ed -d  '//node[child="name"]/@attribute' -d  '//node/child[contains(text(),"name")]' file.xml