Wednesday, March 9, 2005

XSH: XML Editing Shell

Just fixed a small xsh
script that I wrote months ago in my spare time to walk a
Torrus
configuration snapshot.


A coworker asked me If I had a way to easily provide an overview/outline
of the data that was being collected via Torrus for a customer.
Fortunately the answer was yes, and it didn't involve the complex, ugly
and not quite functional grep and awk statements I used the first time I
tried to get quick overview of the XML tree.





The problem was that in order to get the comment I was stepping into the
comment parameter to get the value when I should have been doing




$comment = string(param[attribute::name='comment']/attribute::value);        




Then I wasn't stepping back out, prematurely ending the loop and missing
additional trees and leaves.





The Final output looks a bit like this, but goes on to enumerate all of
the data that is collected and displayed.




  Subtree = Devices ''
Subtree = router-name '2651XM chassis, Hw Serial#: XXXXXXXXX (XXXXXXXX), Hw Revision: 0x301'
Subtree = Buffer_Usage 'Buffer usage statistics'
Subtree = Small_Buffers 'Buffer usage statistics'
Leaf = Free 'Number of Free Small Buffers'
Leaf = Max 'Max Small Buffers'
Leaf = Hits 'Small Buffer Hits'
Leaf = Misses 'Small Buffer Misses'
Leaf = Creates 'Small Buffer Creates'
Leaf = Trims 'Small Buffer Trims'




The snapshot XML in part looks like











    








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