Command line tool to download and extract data from HTML/XML pages or JSON-APIs, using CSS, XPath 3.0, XQuery 3.0, JSONiq or pattern matching. It can also create new or transformed XML/HTML/JSON documents.
I am learning Xidel 0.9.8 on Ubuntu. My issue is that I have looked into the documentation, but as far as I can tell it gives no clue (none I recognize, at least) to do this.
I have a JSON file with records that have, among others, id and title fields, eg:
#> jq '.' test.json | cut -c1-100 | more
[
{
"id": 42,
"title": "Software is eating the world",
I want to extract with Xidel those two values, producing output lines like this:
ARTICLE: 42 ==> Software is eating the world
or at least like this:
42 ==> Software is eating the world
and I can't find, or recognize, the right syntax to use for what seems a general, very common need to me. The closest I have come to what I want is this:
Greetings,
I am learning Xidel 0.9.8 on Ubuntu. My issue is that I have looked into the documentation, but as far as I can tell it gives no clue (none I recognize, at least) to do this.
I have a JSON file with records that have, among others, id and title fields, eg:
I want to extract with Xidel those two values, producing output lines like this:
ARTICLE: 42 ==> Software is eating the world
or at least like this:
42 ==> Software is eating the world
and I can't find, or recognize, the right syntax to use for what seems a general, very common need to me. The closest I have come to what I want is this:
xidel test.json -e 'for $t in $json/title return string-join(("$t/../id", $t), " ==> ")'
which produces lines like these:
$t/../id ==> Software is eating the world
what is the right way to refer to the id value of the current record???
Thanks!