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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)