From: Richard W.M. Jones Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:53:03 +0000 (+0100) Subject: inspector: Use xmlstarlet instead of xpath in examples. X-Git-Tag: 1.13.10~2 X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=baefb8225c8cbde56a1637c17af5c0965a81060e;p=libguestfs.git inspector: Use xmlstarlet instead of xpath in examples. --- diff --git a/inspector/virt-inspector.pod b/inspector/virt-inspector.pod index 5496827..df9dfda 100755 --- a/inspector/virt-inspector.pod +++ b/inspector/virt-inspector.pod @@ -329,22 +329,25 @@ installer, or one part of a multipart CD. For example: =head1 USING XPATH -You can use the XPath query language, and/or the xpath tool, in order -to select parts of the XML. +You can use the XPath query language to select parts of the XML. We +recommend using C to perform XPath queries from the +command line. For example: - $ virt-inspector -d Guest | xpath //filesystems - Found 1 nodes: - -- NODE -- + $ virt-inspector -d Guest | xmlstarlet sel -t -c '//filesystems' ext4 - [etc] + [...] $ virt-inspector -d Guest | \ - xpath "string(//filesystem[@dev='/dev/sda1']/type)" - Query didn't return a nodeset. Value: ext4 + xmlstarlet sel -t -c "string(//filesystem[@dev='/dev/sda1']/type)" + ext4 + + $ virt-inspector -d Guest | \ + xmlstarlet sel -t -v '//icon' | base64 -i -d | display - + [displays the guest icon, if there is one] =head1 SHELL QUOTING @@ -380,6 +383,7 @@ L, L, L, L, +L, L. =head1 AUTHORS