Trying to parse a xml file for only one tag

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I have a xml file in where I need to parse only a particular tag and print the output in the shell script.

Here is the tag info in the xml file

<dp:file> This is dp file output </dp:file>

Output should be printed as

This is dp file output.

Please help.Thank you.

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This is one way using sed:

$ echo '<dp:file> This is dp file output </dp:file>' | sed -n 's/<dp:file>\(.*\)<\/dp:file>/\1/p'
 This is dp file output

Example of running command on file:

sed -n 's/<dp:file>\(.*\)<\/dp:file>/\1/p' file_name.xml
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Using awk:-

awk -F'[<|>]' '/dp:file/ { print $3 } ' xml_file
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We need to see more of the XML.

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Thank you all for the response..I will keep this open for one more day...I will try in the script and will keep you guys posted.

Thank you!!

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perl -lne "if(/dp:file/){$_=m/>([^<]*)</;print $1}" your_xml_file

Regard's,
Vijay