Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : xidel
Version : 0.9.4
Upstream Author : Benito van der Zander <ben...@benibela.de>
* URL : http://www.videlibri.de/xidel.html
* License : GPLv3
Programming Lang: Pascal
Description : Command line tool to download and query
HTML/XML/JSON with XQuery
Xidel is a command line tool to query data from HTML/XML web pages,
JSON-APIs
and local files.
.
It implements interpreters for XPath 2, XPath 3, XQuery 1, XQuery 3,
JSONiq,
CSS selectors and custom pattern matching.
.
XPath and CSS selectors are the most efficient way to select certain
elements
from XML/HTML documents.
JSONiq (with custom extensions) is an easy way to select data from JSON.
.
XQuery is a Turing-complete superset of XPath and allows arbitrary data
transformations and the creation of new documents.
.
Pattern matching is for XML/HTML documents what regular expressions
are for
plaintext, i.e. pattern matching behaves like a regular expression
over the
space of tags, instead over the space of characters.
.
Xidel implements a kind of internal pipes to pipe HTTP requests from
one query
to the next, so there is no need to distinguish selecting links and
downloading
the data referenced by them. Therefore arbitrary complex queries going
over
arbitrary many pages can be executed with a single call of Xidel.
The deb files at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/videlibri/files/Xidel/Xidel%200.9.4/
should be packagable
