On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 14:52:17 +0100 "Christian Nygaard" <christiannygaard at gmail.com> wrote: > What built in utilities are there that can evaluate XML XPath statements in > CentOS? libxml2 has XPath support. Bindings against libxml2 are provided by many languages, e.g. you could install the libxml2-python package from CentOS 4. Besides that, it is relatively easy to write a C program that uses libxml2 to evaluate XPath expressions (which is handy for shell scripting). A quick and dirty example can be found at: http://danieldk.org/code/snippets/xpgrep-0.0.1.tar.gz (I wrote/use it as a minimal grep workalike that accepts XPath expressions). BTW. If you have files that are not well-formed (like many XHTML) files, or if the information to extract is trivial, it is often easier to grep or write a simple line-processing Perl script. -- Daniel