How can I get the value from an attribute using xmllint and XPath?

Question

I want to get the value of name and put it in a variable using XMLLint

echo \'cat //body         


        

Answer 1

Try this, it's not beautiful but it works :)

I just erase lines containing > from stdout , cut the string to get the second part after the = , and delete "

test=$(echo 'cat //body/value/@name' | xmllint --shell "test.xml" | grep -v ">" | cut -f 2 -d "=" | tr -d \"); 
echo $test