Changing the value of an XML element depending on the value of another element in the tree
xml, xmlstarlet
Solution
... Apparently I'm an idiot; As demonstrated in this answer you can search for element values the same way you can search for attribute values, so the correct command would be:
`xmlstarlet ed -u '//object[name="Foo"]/const1' -v 18 sample.xml`
... Also, caveat when working on really big files: Without output redirection, `xmlstarlet` prints to stdout. All 100+ megabytes of xml. Oops.
Problem
I have a very large (100+ megabyte uncompressed) XML file storing datasets, and I'm trying to selectively change some values. For example, say `sample.xml` looks like this: ``` <objects> <object> <name>Foo</name> <constant1>10</constant1> <constant2>20</constant2> </object> <object> <name>Bar</name> <constant1>15</constant1> <constant2>40</constant2> </object> <objects> ``` Now I want to change the value of `<constant1>` to 18, but only for the object whose `Name` element has value `Foo`. I've been poking at the XML Starlet documentation but its article on editing only has examples on how to look for attributes of elements directly up in the tree, unless I'm missing something...