Scripting: what is the easiest to extract a value in a tag of a XML file?
Solution 1:
xml2 can convert xml to/from line-oriented format:
xml2 < pom.xml | grep /project/version= | sed 's/.*=//'
Solution 2:
Other way: xmlgrep and XPath:
xmlgrep --text_only '/project/version' pom.xml
Disadvantage: slow