XML2TBL(1)

💖 XML2TBL 💖

okay bestie, welcome to xml2tbl from the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual — yes the manual name goes right here at the top, no cap. this one's short and sweet but it's literally doing the most important glow-up in the pipeline 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

xml2tbl — the little icon that transforms INSDSeq XML into an NCBI five-column feature table 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

xml2tbl

that's it. that's the whole vibe. no flags, no args, no drama 💅

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so here's the tea, bestie: xml2tbl reads INSDSeq XML from standard input and writes a corresponding NCBI five-column feature table to standard output. that's the whole entire job and she does it flawlessly, periodt ✨

so like, you pipe your XML in, you get your table out. main character energy fr fr 🌈

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

the friend group!! go say hi to all of them:

• align-columns(1)
• csv2xml(1)
• efetch(1)
• gbf2tbl(1)
• transmute(1)
• xml2fsa(1)
• xtract(1)

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not me ending the page but like... that's genuinely all she wrote 💀 short king of a manpage.

NCBI · 2025-05-26 — mwah, love u, bye bestie!! 💖🎀🦋✨🌸💅