Extract Value between XML tags with SED

Question

I am receiving data from a server in the following format:

gin1601DepthOfBook<         


        

Answer 1

Something like this would work:

 sed -e 's/<\/sessionId>/<\/sessionId>\n/g' | sed -n 's/.*\([^<]*\)<\/sessionId>.*/\1/p'

First part is because sed tries to eat up as much of a single line as possible when matching, this will find all sessionId occurences and split them up on a line on its own.

Next part matches stuff between the sessionId tags.