Read XML file with windows batch

Question

I\'m trying to read an xml file and read STRING \"50\" between the build tags from a XML file. I tried it but I\'m not getting any output.

The XML file..

Answer 1

Retrieve only the required line (find), and using the adecuated delimiters (<>), tokenize the line to retrieve the required information

     delims:    v     v  v      v
     line  :    <Build>50</Build>
     tokens:^1   ^2    ^3 ^4

Now, translate this into code

@echo off
    setlocal enableextensions disabledelayedexpansion

    set "build="
    for /f "tokens=3 delims=<>" %%a in (
        'find /i "<Build>" ^< "file.xml"'
    ) do set "build=%%a"

    echo %build%

Answer 2

...I'm sure you're aware that parsing XML with batch might not be the easiest/smartest thing to do. Tools like xmlstarlet and xidel are better suited for this:

xidel -q file.xml -e //build

...to save the buildnumber in a variable X and output it:

@echo off
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('xidel -q --output-format cmd file.xml -e "x:=//build"') do %%a
echo Build version = %x%

...even nicer would be if BeniBela (xidel coder) could program something like the following to directly set the environment variables and not generate a set command as ouput. That would be very powerful (and short). Beni? You're up for this? :-)

xidel -q -cmd file.xml -e x:=//build

Answer 3

This term will not fire because %%a is not going to be just <BUILD>

"%%a"=="<BUILD>" 

Add this line to your code after the FOR line and run it to show you what is happening:

echo "%%a"

Answer 4

you can try the xpath.bat - script that can get a value from xml file by given xpath:

call xpath.bat "build.xml" "\\build"