xmlstarlet select value

Question

This is the xml-data:

Answer 1

The key is to start from the ITEM node, not the identifyer:

$ xmlstarlet sel -t -c "/DATA/TABLES/ITEM[identifyer/@V=1234]" test.xml

  
  
  

Then you can pick out the bits you want:

$ xmlstarlet sel -t -c "/DATA/TABLES/ITEM[identifyer/@V=1234]/*" test.xml


$ xmlstarlet sel -t -v "/DATA/TABLES/ITEM[identifyer/@V=1234]/Property2/@V" test.xml
qwerty