Searching in lot of XML

[m6s]

Hello...

Can anyone help me on this, I have some xml and I want to find if an element, e.g. <BEER></BEER>
contains something (what ever) while those that are empty to skip.
I tried, the usual grep and fgrep or awk but as far as I got was to return every aspect of this element.

Thank you.

[radoulov]

You need to provide a sample input and an example of the desired output.

[m6s]

You need to provide a sample input and an example of the desired output.

<ORDER>
<BOX>1</BOX>
<BEER>12</BEER>
<WINE>15</WINE>
<BEER></BEER>
<WINE>ERROR</WINE>
...
</ORDER>

Sth like that XML, it's very simple...as data.

[jeasoft]

Excuse me for the question, but my english is not my best thing :P.

Do you need to search the element in the xml file?

If you want to search IN the file, you can you some editor and use some function to search on it.
For example, Gedit (ctrl + f to find), or VI (in command line, /xml ---> this search and show the results).

I ask excuses if this is not the right thing.

[ghostdog74]

only tested on your sample

awk '{n=gsub(/<BEER>|<\/BEER>/,""); if(n>0) print $0}' file

[m6s]

only tested on your sample

awk '{n=gsub(/<BEER>|<\/BEER>/,""); if(n>0) print $0}' file

Well...It worked..!!!
Can u give us some more details? What you wrote?

Thank u a lot!