Basic command line syntax:
bash-2.03$ xml XMLStarlet Toolkit: Command line utilities for XML Usage: xml [<options>] <command> [<cmd-options>] where <command> is one of: ed (or edit) - Edit/Update XML document(s) sel (or select) - Select data or query XML document(s) (XPATH, etc) tr (or transform) - Transform XML document(s) using XSLT val (or validate) - Validate XML document(s) (well-formed/DTD/XSD/RelaxNG) fo (or format) - Format XML document(s) el (or elements) - Display element structure of XML document c14n (or canonic) - XML canonicalization ls (or list) - List directory as XML esc (or escape) - Escape special XML characters unesc (or unescape) - Unescape special XML characters pyx (or xmln) - Convert XML into PYX format (based on ESIS - ISO 8879) p2x (or depyx) - Convert PYX into XML <options> are: -q or --quiet - no error output --doc-namespace - extract namespace bindings from input doc (default) --no-doc-namespace - don't extract namespace bindings from input doc --version - show version --help - show help Wherever file name mentioned in command help it is assumed that URL can be used instead as well. Type: xml <command> --help <ENTER> for command help XMLStarlet is a command line toolkit to query/edit/check/transform XML documents (for more information see http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/)