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xmlsh fails on cygwin, NoClassDefFoundError

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:21:57 -0000

xmlsh fails to run under cygwin with:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/xmlsh/sh/shell/Shell

It's a java-cygwin-path issue really, not xmlsh, but it can be avoided by adding:

if [ $OSTYPE == "cygwin" ]; then
CLASSPATH=`cygpath -wp $CLASSPATH`
fi

just prior the java command in $XMLSH/unix/xmlsh script.

some demo scripts hardcode the location of xmlsh

Philip Gleghorn — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:19:46 -0000

Following scripts hardcode the location of xmlsh, and fail OOTB (when called from demo.xsh, or called directly)

demo/xml/xml_doc.xsh
demo/tools/tool_xquery.xsh
demo/tools/tool_pipe.xsh
demo/tools/tool_xpath.xsh
demo/tools/tool_xslt.xsh

Tox fix, in these files replace "$XROOT/xmlsh" with "$XMLSH", presumes that XMLSH is set correctly as the install docs say to do.

If changed, then it seems XROOT and DEMODIR are not used, and could be removed from demo.xsh.

demo.xsh needs "import commands posix"

Philip Gleghorn — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:00:26 -0000

Running demo.bat on windows (non-cygwin), the "unix shell compatible" tests fail due to missing the cat command. Adding "import commands posix" to demo.xsh fixes this.

Error prior to addng import:

Demo Examples for xmlsh

1) Unix shell compatible
2) XML expression
3) Core tools
4) Interesting examples
=======================
ENTER to return
Command: 1
Demo Examples for xmlsh
=======================
1) if statement
2) for statement
3) while statement
4) case statement
5) String variables
=======================
ENTER to return
Command: 1
======= unix_if.xsh =======
[C:/DEVEL/xmlsh_1_1_4/samples/demo/demo.xsh line: 52]
cat: not found
======= Press ENTER to run ======

xgrep returns text values

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:33:09 -0000

xgrep returns filenames seperated by NL
To be consistant with other commands it should return XML values.

Recommend to change the xgrep command to return the same structure as xml
Requested to also (like xls) add a "-r" command to xgrep which recurses directories

escaping characters handling in SQL expressions

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:52:59 -0000

A tricky area between passing variables and making substitutions
For a query option like -q "SELECT * FROM SALES WHERE CITY='DALLAS'"

What is the way (eval?) to pass the -q options if DALLAS is now part of a variable city?

I tried concatenation using a SQL statement variable like $head$City$tail without success
in this case XMLSH produces a escaped string like :
\"SELECT * FROM SALES WHERE CITY=\'DALLAS\'\"
which I think is not handled properly for the xsql parser when passed as -q $foobar:
-q \"SELECT * FROM SALES WHERE CITY='DALLAS'"

Any suggestions?

xsql parsing options issues

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:53:45 -0000

nice to have...on top of all the powerful tools already supported, - I'm lovin' it
It appears to me that the options -u and -p are required
Ideally it could the command should be able to handle any jdbc driver not just relational databases
* I tested with csvjdbc -for simplicity - (http://csvjdbc.sourceforge.net/) but it fails, perhaps because -u -p expected options (my guess).

Moreover the connection message can't pass driver parameters as part of the connection url. That would simplify and target to the DB driver specifics

For example this Derby connection url does not work
-c jdbc:derby://localhost:1527/sample;user=app;password=app

if I separate -user app -pasword app ot does work. However some RDBMS might have other authentication schemas or none like csv

Port duplication syntax not supported.

David Lee — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:11:56 -0000

Number based port duplication works e.g.
cmd 2>&1

but name based port duplication does not work, e.g.
cmd (error)>&(output)

xed command with option -e generates an error

Emmanuel Lazinier — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:12:52 -0000

Option -e generates error message :
Unknown option -e
Command succeeds if "-e xpath-expr" is replaced with "xpath-expr"

Documentation - page for xed needs tidying

Emmanuel Lazinier — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:30:50 -0000

http://www.xmlsh.org/CommandXed page
has probably initially been copied from CommandXpath page.
So "xpath" still appears in title and synopsis, in lieu of "xed".

xpath command with attribute in path generates an error

Emmanuel Lazinier — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:28:12 -0000

The script:
xls|xpath '//file/@name'
generates the following error message:
net.sf.saxonApiException: Cannot create an attribute node (name) whose parent is a document node