Re: Is there a solution to have newline delimited output for xmllint ?

My implementation of a wrapper command, named xmllint :

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#!/bin/bash

# 2018-03-23 12:49:27.0 +0100 / Gilles Quenot 
<[email protected]>
# wrapper script to have newline delimited output on Xpath querys

args=( "$@" )
if [[ $@ == *--xpath* ]]; then
     # iterate over positional parameters
     for ((i=0; i<${#args}; i++)); do
         if [[ ${args[i]} == --xpath ]]; then
             xpath="${args[i+1]}"
             delete=("${args[i+1]}" "${args[i]}")
         elif [[ -e ${args[i]} || ${args[i]} == file://* || ${args[i]} == 
http*://* || ${args[i]} == - ]]; then
             file="${args[i]}"
             delete=("${args[i]}")
             break
         fi
     done
     if [[ $file == - ]]; then
         /usr/bin/xmllint "$@"
     else
         /usr/bin/xmllint "$args" --shell "${file}" <<< "cat $xpath" | 
sed '1d;$d;s/^ ------- *$//;/^$/d; s/^ *//'
     fi
else
     /usr/bin/xmllint "$@"
fi
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regards, Gilles Quenot