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NAME

       hxremove - remove elements from an XML file by means of a CSS selector

SYNOPSIS

       hxremove [ -i ] [ -l language ] selectors

DESCRIPTION

       hxremove  reads  a  well-formed XML document from standard input and writes it to standard output without
       any elements that match one of the CSS selectors that are given as argument. For example

           hxremove ol li:first-child

       removes the first li (list item in XHTML) from every ol (ordered list).

       If there are multiple selectors, they must be separated by commas. For example,

           hxremove p + ul, blockquote ol

       removes all ul elements that follow a p element and also all  ol  elements  that  are  descendants  of  a
       blockquote element.

       hxremove  assumes that class selectors (".foo") refer to an attribute called "class". And assumes that ID
       selectors ("#foo") refer to an attribute called "id".

       To handle HTML files, make them well-formed XML first, e.g., with hxnormalize -x.

       Compare with hxselect, which removes everything but the selected elements.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -i        Match case-insensitively. Useful for HTML and some other SGML-based languages.

       -l language
                 Sets the default language, in  case  the  root  element  doesn't  have  an  xml:lang  attribute
                 (default: none). Example: -l en

OPERANDS

       The following operand is supported:

       selectors
              One or more comma-separated selectors. Most selectors from CSS level 3 are supported.

SEE ALSO

       asc2xml(1), xml2asc(1), hxnormalize(1), hxselect(1), UTF-8 (RFC 2279)