Provided by: libxml-xpath-perl_1.30-1_all 
NAME
xpath - a script to query XPath statements in XML documents.
SYNOPSIS
xpath [-s suffix] [-p prefix] [-n] [-q] -e query [-e query] ... [file] ...
DESCRIPTION
xpath uses the XML::XPath perl module to make XPath queries to any XML document. The XML::XPath module
aims to comply exactly to the XPath specification at "http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath" and yet allows
extensions to be added in the form of functions.
The script takes any number of XPath pointers and tries to apply them to each XML document given on the
command line. If no file arguments are given, the query is done using "STDIN" as an XML document.
When multiple queries exist, the result of the last query is used as context for the next query and only
the result of the last one is output. The context of the first query is always the root of the current
document.
OPTIONS
-q
Be quiet. Output only errors (and no separator) on stderr.
-e
Never use an external DTD, ie. instantiate the XML::Parser module with 'ParseParamEnt => 0'.
-s suffix
Place "suffix" at the end of each entry. Default is a linefeed.
-p prefix
Place "prefix" preceding each entry. Default is nothing.
BUGS
The author of this man page is not very fluant in english. Please, send him (fabien@tzone.org) any corrections concerning this text. See also XML::XPath(3pm).
SEE ALSO
XML::XPath(3pm).
HISTORY
This module is copyright 2000 Fastnet Software Ltd. This is free software, and as such comes with NO
WARRANTY. No dates are used in this module. You may distribute this module under the terms of either the
Gnu GPL, or under specific licencing from Fastnet Software Ltd. Special free licencing consideration
will be given to similarly free software. Please don't flame me for this licence - I've put a lot of
hours into this code, and if someone uses my software in their product I expect them to have the courtesy
to contact me first.
Full support for this module is available from Fastnet Software Ltd on a pay per incident basis.
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glad to get you started.
Matt Sergeant, matt@sergeant.org
This man page was added as well as some serious modifications to the script by Fabien Ninoles
<fabien@debian.org> for the Debian Project.