can i do XML parsing usind sed

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi all...

I want to parse a xml filein unix .. Can i use SED or unix script to parse the xml file .. If so can anyone show a sample script that will parse the xml file ..

Thanks in advance,
Arun ,,,,

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Can you show the sample input and output required?

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<guest>
<guest1> a1 </guest1>
<guest2> a2 </guest2>
</guest>
<guest>
<guest1> a3 </guest1>
<guest2> a4 </guest2>
</guest>

can u please give an example to parse the example ... Either by SED or by unix script.

Thanks in advance,
Arun ..

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$ awk -v tag="</guest>" ' />.*</ { gsub("<[^>]*>","") ; str = str ? str " " $0 : $0 }
>      $0 ~ tag { print str; str="" } ' file
 a1   a2
 a3   a4