xmlstarlet ☆

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Description:
XML command-line utilities

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: xml cli data-processing developer-tools text-processing

Install: brew install xmlstarlet

About:
XMLStarlet is a set of command-line utilities for processing XML data. It provides a robust suite of tools for transforming, querying, validating, and editing XML documents without requiring a graphical interface. This makes it an essential tool for automation scripts and server-side data processing.

Key Features:

Command-line XML processing toolkit
Supports XSLT transformations and XPath queries
XML validation against DTDs and XSD schemas
Format and edit XML documents programmatically

Use Cases:

Extracting specific data points from large XML logs or configuration files
Automating build pipelines by transforming XML data
Validating API responses or data exports against schemas

Alternatives:

xq (jq for XML) – Part of the yq package; focuses on querying and is often more concise for JSON-like extraction.
xmllint – Primarily focused on validation and linting, though it also supports XPath.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 29, 2024 10:01pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	66f3d0c3