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XMLStarlet Toolkit: Edit XML document(s)
Usage: xml ed <global-options> {<action>} [ <xml-file-or-uri> ... ]
where
  <global-options>  - global options for editing
  <xml-file-or-uri> - input XML document file name/uri (stdin otherwise)

<global-options> are:
  -P, or -S           - preserve whitespace nodes.
     (or --pf, --ps)    Note that space between attributes is not preserved
  -O (or --omit-decl) - omit XML declaration (<?xml ...?>)
  -L (or --inplace)   - edit file inplace
  -N <name>=<value>   - predefine namespaces (name without 'xmlns:')
                        ex: xsql=urn:oracle-xsql
                        Multiple -N options are allowed.
                        -N options must be last global options.
  --net               - allow network access
  --help or -h        - display help

where <action>
  -d or --delete <xpath>
  --var <name> <xpath>
  -i or --insert <xpath> -t (--type) elem|text|attr -n <name> [-v (--value) <value>]
  -a or --append <xpath> -t (--type) elem|text|attr -n <name> [-v (--value) <value>]
  -s or --subnode <xpath> -t (--type) elem|text|attr -n <name> [-v (--value) <value>]
  -m or --move <xpath1> <xpath2>
  -r or --rename <xpath1> -v <new-name>
  -u or --update <xpath> -v (--value) <value>
                         -x (--expr) <xpath>

XMLStarlet is a command line toolkit to query/edit/check/transform
XML documents (for more information see http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/)

xml sel -t -c "//AccountId/text()" !file!

xml fo -t !file!

xml ed -s "//AccountId" -t elem -n "Acc" -v "value" !file!
xml ed -a "//AccountId" -t elem -n "Acc" -v "value" !file!
xml ed -i "//AccountId" -t elem -n "Acc" -v "value" !file!
xml ed -u "//AccountId" -v "value" !file!
xml ed -d "//AccountId" !file!