HXREMOVE(1) HTML-XML-utils HXREMOVE(1)NAMEhxremove - remove elements from an XML file by means of a CSS selector
SYNOPSIShxremove [ -i ] [ -l language ] selector
DESCRIPTIONhxremove 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 ele‐
ments.
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 ALSOasc2xml(1), xml2asc(1), hxnormalize(1), hxselect(1), UTF-8 (RFC 2279)
6.x 10 Jul 2011 HXREMOVE(1)