Hi,

I have this xml:

<item>
<title>Jack win the news</title>
<link>http://nom/hot/jack+white</link>
<guid>http://nt/jack+white</guid>
<name>juan</name>
<surname>martinez</surname>
</item>
<item>
<title></title>
<link>http://wasdfsadfw=1050681776</link>
<guid>http://fa&asadfp;id=1050681776</guid>
<name>paddco</name>
<surname>perddez</surname>
</item>
<title>Glad to roll..</title>
<link>http://ww=1050681776</link>
<guid>http://fa&amp;id=1050681776</guid>
<name>paco</name>
<surname>perez</surname>
</item>
...
...
...

and i need write all tags title in a different file index like this

Jack win the news > try_1.out
Glad to roll.. > try_3.out
...
...
...

I am using this sentence
H="try_"
awk -v name=$H 'BEGIN{RS = "[<>]"}{ORS = /title/?"\n":"|"}/item/,/\/item/{if(/^(title)$/ && getline) print>(name)(++i)".out";} input.xml

but this generate 3 files

try_1.out with this "Jack win the news"
try_2.out with a blank line
try_3.out with this "Glad to roll.."

How i can generate only the two files?


Thanks for all

So implement a check of the length using the length function

thanks grail so how????

I'am trying this

awk -v name=$H 'BEGIN {RS = "[<>]"}
{ORS = /description/?"\n":"|"}/item/,/\/item/{if((/^(description)$/ && getline)!="")print > (name)(++i)".out"; }
' GGITBYZK5ThI7gtsU6wydg.xml

but this print a lot of archives, because i think that this print all lines.

Thanks,

I solve my question with this.

awk -v prefix="try_" '
BEGIN {
RS = "[\t\n\v\f\r ]*[<]"
FS = "[>][\t\n\v\f\r ]*"
id = 0
}

($1 == "item" || $1 ~ /^item[\t\n\v\f\r ]/) {
split("", field)
id++
next
}

($1 ~ /^[A-Za-z]/) {
name = $1
sub(/[\t\n\v\f\r ]*$/, "", name)
field[name] = $2
next
}

($1 == "/item") {
if(field["description"] != "")
{
print field["description"] > "try_"(++i)".out";

}
else
{
i++
}
}

' input_file

I probably would have just added an if prior to you print, something like:

thanks again Grail.