opaxmlfilter(8)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to opaxmlfilter — it's a lil command from the IFSFFCLIRG man page family and it is lowkey iconic 🎀

Here's the vibe: it takes an XML file, yeets out every XML tag you tell it to remove, and prints what's left. And because it's a generous queen, it can also reformat the indentation while it's at it. 💅

The way that opaxmlfilter is literally the opposite of opaxmlextract — like, they're the two halves of one friend group. 🫶

🌸 Syntax 🌸

opaxmlfilter [-t|-k] [-l] [-i indent] [-s element] [input_file]

that's it, that's the whole summoning ritual ✨

💖 Options 💖

• --help — prints the full help text for you. your personal hype document, fr fr 📜
• -t — trims the leading and trailing whitespace inside tag contents. no more awkward extra spaces, she's tidy now 🧚
• -k — for tags that are purely whitespace and happen to contain newlines, this keeps those newlines exactly as-is. the default behaviour (i.e. when you don't pass -k) is to format them as an empty list. so -k is the "leave my newlines alone" flag 🌈
• -l — adds comments with line numbers after every end tag. it's giving "diffing is so much easier now" because the original line numbers are right there for you 👑
• -i indent — sets how much indentation to use per level. the default is 4. pick your own adventure ✨
• -s element — names the XML element you want to suppress (i.e. the tag getting the boot 💀). you can use this one multiple times — up to a max of 100 — and in any order you want.
• input_file — the XML file to read. if you don't give one, the default is stdin 🍓

heads up bestie: -s maxes out at 100 uses. that's the ceiling. plan accordingly 🎀

and that's the whole page!! source/version, for the record: this is from IFSFFCLIRG (Man Page), © Copyright(C) 2015-2019 Intel Corporation — and the page itself is dated accordingly. stay slay, go filter some XML, mwah 💖✨🦋