[fedora-java] xml manipulation

[Mikolaj Izdebski]

On 03/11/2015 12:06 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> On 03/10/2015 01:17 AM, Mikolaj Izdebski wrote:
>> On 03/09/2015 09:10 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>>> Is it possible to use %pom_xpath_remove (or similar) to edit an arbitrary xml
>>> file?  I'd like to remove from:
>>
>> Yes, it should work.
>>
>>> releng/org.eclipse.ptp.repo/category.xml:
>>>
>>> <site>
>>>  ...
>>>    <feature url="features/org.eclipse.ptp.rdt.sync.fortran_0.0.0.jar"
>>> id="org.eclipse.ptp.rdt.sync.fortran" version="0.0.0">
>>>       <category name="Remote Development Tools"/>
>>>    </feature>
>>> ...
>>> </site>
>>
>> I've just verified it with:
>>
>> $ cat /tmp/feature.xml
>> <site>
>>    <feature url="features/org.eclipse.ptp.rdt.sync.fortran_0.0.0.jar"
>> id="org.eclipse.ptp.rdt.sync.fortran" version="0.0.0">
>>       <category name="Remote Development Tools"/>
>>    </feature>
>> </site>
>>
>> $ python3 /usr/share/java-utils/pom_editor.py pom_xpath_remove feature
>> /tmp/feature.xml
>>
>> $ cat /tmp/feature.xml
>> <site>
>>    </site>
>>
>>
> 
> Ah, sorry, I should have been a little more clear.  There are several
> <feature> items, but I only want to remove that specific one.  I don't know
> how to name that.

For that you can use something like:

%pom_xpath_remove "feature[@id='org.eclipse.ptp.rdt.sync.fortran']"

This will remove any feature node with given id.

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Mikolaj Izdebski
Software Engineer, Red Hat
IRC: mizdebsk