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.TH GXPD 1 "4 Aug 2008"
.SH NAME
gxpd \- Delete sections of XML documents using XPath expressions
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBgxpd\fR [\fIoptions\fR] \fIXPATH\fR [\fIFILE\fR...]
.SH DESCRIPTION

.B Gxpd
deletes sections from the specified XML files and saves the result in-place,
or removes the sections from a document parsed from standard input and prints
it to standard output.  

.SH ARGUMENTS

.TP
.BI \-p " PRE"
The prefix to use in the XPath expression to match the default XML
name space in the document.  XPath 1.0 does not define a way to match
the default name space when an XML document contains XML name spaces.
By specifying a default name space prefix here, you can match on the
default prefix in the document.

.SH EXAMPLES
.nf
.B Example document
<A>
 <B name="foo">
  <C>C of foo</C>
 </B>
 <B name="bar">
  <C>C of bar</C>
 </B>
 <B name="baz">
  <C>C of baz</C>
 </B>
</A>

.B # gxpd "/A/B[@name='baz']" example.xml
Removed 1 nodes
.B # cat example.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<A>
 <B name="foo">
  <C>C of foo</C>
 </B>
 <B name="bar">
  <C>C of bar</C>
 </B>
 
</A>

.SH "SEE ALSO"
gxpp(1), http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath