XML-XREAD(1)

💖 NAME 💖

xml-xread — a simple command-line XML parsing application, and honestly? she's little but she works. ✨

xml-xread [options] document.xml

okay so bestie, xml-xread is a simple command-line XML parser. like, that's her whole job and she's not pretending otherwise 💅

she's literally just a tiny little wrapper around the JAXP XMLReader, but with catalog support baked in so you don't have to suffer. no cap.

⚠️ real talk though: the process ends with error-level 1 if there were errors. she will absolutely let you know. 😭

command-line options are below, bestie, read them all, they're short:

-c catalogfile — load a particular catalog file. yes, that catalog file. the one you point at. 🎀
-w — do a well-formed parse, not a validating parse. lowkey the chill option.
-v — do a validating parse. this one is the default, so if you don't say anything, this is the vibe you get 👑
-s — enable W3C XML Schema validation. she's fancy now 🌈
-n — do a namespace-ignorant parse. namespaces? never heard of her 🙈
-N — do a namespace-aware parse. this one is the default, so she's actually paying attention to namespaces unless you tell her not to ✨
-d integer — set the debug level. warnings get shown if the debug level is > 2. so like, crank it past 2 if you want the tea 🍓
-E integer — set the maximum number of errors to display. because sometimes you just need to cap the chaos 💀

and that's the whole page, bestie, go parse something iconic 🫶

this lil cutie comes to you from xml-commons-resolver, dated 11 April 2013 — old enough to be vintage, still serving main character energy 👑💖✨

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