Parse XML file with windows batch

Question

How can I extract an STRING like \"US_NY\" between the tags from a XML file? I tried it with FINDSTR, but the line breaks are

Answer 1

Pure batch -

@ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL
SET "location="&SET "grab="
FOR /f "tokens=*" %%a IN (q19722041.xml) DO (
 IF DEFINED grab SET location=%%a&SET "grab="
  IF /i "%%a"=="" SET grab=Y
)
ECHO found location=%location%
GOTO :EOF

where q19722041.xml is your source .xml file.