I've found xmlstarlet is wonderful if you are want to use XPath on the terminal. Great with curl + XML APIs like Jenkins. xml sel --template --value-of "//foo/

I've found xmlstarlet is wonderful if you are want to use XPath on the terminal. Great with curl + XML APIs like Jenkins. xml sel --template --value-of "//foo/bar" \ --template --value-of "//baz[@name='Alice']" << EOF <foo> <bar>hello</bar> <baz name="Alice"> world</baz> </foo> EOF http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/docs.php http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/docs.php It also can edit with XPath which is really handy.