Do syntax is correct ?

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I tried with sed command to create a space between namespace from the XML file. I used this syntax. Can someone tell me is this syntax is vaild?

/usr/xpg4/bin/sed  -e 's/<\/^.*><^.:Errort>/<\/^.*> <^.:Errort>/g' test > test2

I dint find any changes or any space being created between these namespace.

2

Maybe with something like this:

sed 's/><^.:Errort>/> <^.:Errort>/g' test > test2
3

Result is the same, Space is not getting created when i used

<^.:Errort>

But space will get created when i used the exact expression , something like this.

<ns1:Errot>

But this expression ns1 changes in many of the scenarios, so instead of this I need to use Regex. Can you get me the exact regex that needs to be used.

4

Try:

sed 's/><[^>]*:Errort>/> <^.:Errort>/g' test > test2
5

This works for me:

sed 's/\(<\/[^>]*>\)\(<[^:]*:\)/\1 \2/g' test > test2

Regards,
Mark.

6

Thanks for your precious input, both of your syntax worked very well.

Mark

Can you explain me the syntax, since your syntax worked for both opening and closing namespace.

---------- Post updated 04-21-11 at 12:00 AM ---------- Previous update was 04-20-11 at 11:47 PM ----------

Mark,

Your syntax has created one space between all the namespaces, but indeed i just required particularly for this namespace <ns1:Errort> </ns1:Errort>

7

Earlier you wrote:

I took that to mean that you wanted a space between all namespaces. So I'm not quite clear on what you're asking for exactly.

Here are some more options:

sed 's/\(<\/[^>]*>\)\(<[^:]*:Errort\)/\1 \2/g' test > test2
sed 's/\(<\/[^>]*>\)\(<ns[0-9]*:Errort\)/\1 \2/g' test > test2
sed 's/\(<\/[^>]*>\)\(<ns1:Errort\)/\1 \2/g' test > test2

Regards,
Mark.

8

Syntax

sed 's/\(<\/[^>]*>\)\(<[^:]*:Errort\)/\1 \2/g' test > test2

Worked well, but need to check other way round now. Do this syntax work? This syntax is for closing namespace <\ns1:Errort>

sed 's/(<\/[^:]*:Errort\)/\(<\/[^>]*>\)/\1 \2/g' test2 > test7
9

Not sure I understand. What do you mean by the other way around?

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The first syntax is to create a space between two tags where <ns1:Errort> tag starts, which works fine with

Sample 1: Worked really well.

sed 's/\(<\/[^>]*>\)\(<[^:]*:Errort\)/\1 \2/g' test > test2

</tg1:XYZ123><ns1:Errort>

The other way round syntax which i mean is for creating a space for closing </ns1:Errort> tag. Which is something like this.

Sample 2: Not sure, there is something wrong with this, syntax is being garbled.

sed 's/(<\/[^:]*:Errort\)/\(<\/[^>]*>\)/\1 \2/g' test2 > test7

</ns1:Errort><tg2:123XYZ>
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Ok, understood. Try:

sed -e 's/>\(<[^:]*:Errort\)/> \1/g' -e 's/\(<\/[^:]*:Errort>\)</\1 </g'

Regards,
Mark.

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