Does anyone know of a similar tool for XML? In particular, it would be cool to have a useful way to run xpath, and maybe xquery, from the command line. The tools I've found have unfortunate interfaces, e.g. they won't read XML from stdin.
Most of the JSON conversions from XML get it all wrong though. XML is not really an object (dict, hash) based meta-schema. It's an array-based meta-schema. XML->JSON conversions should look something like this:
I am not a huge fan of PHP, but you can do some useful stuff to XML using the PHP command line tool, provided you have the right libraries installed. I have run into situations where the package manager on a machine I'm using doesn't have an up to date xmlstartlet or xmllint, and have tidily gotten around this problem using PHP.
