NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

       hxremove [ -i ] [ -l language ] selector

DESCRIPTION

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

           hxremove ol li:first-child

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

       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

       -?        Show command usage.

OPERANDS

       The following operand is supported:

       selector
              A  selector.  Most  selectors from CSS level 3 are supported, with the exception of
              pseudo-classes, pseudo-elements and selectors with last- in their name.

SEE ALSO

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