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Thanks for sharing all these notes. Its really really helpful! :)

Would you please consider also offering a kind of assessment/review of how well xmlstarlet performs overall?

• Is it stable?
• Are some parts stable while others are not so (I read somewhere among libxml2 tickets that their XSD support is incomplete and occasioanlly buggy, so I guess xmlstarlet is too)?
• What have you used it for, and how did it do for those tasks?
• A comparison to xmllint, if you tried that out.

I have used xmllint but have not been impressed. I would expect a tool hosted at sourceforge with no updates since 2014 to be waste of time. But now that I am finally trying it out, it seems much better than xmllint at everything I tried so far. I wonder if that is your experience too?

Best regards.

From https://martin7th.github.io/xmlstarlet-notes/#global-opt-net:

For security, network access is disallowed by default

I'm on Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS and installed with apt install xmlstarlet. By default it will in fact download xml schemas over the internet, and thus --net makes no difference.

$ xmlstarlet --version
1.6.1
compiled against libxml2 2.9.10, linked with 20913
compiled against libxslt 1.1.34, linked with 10134

When using xmllint the default is also that internet download is allowed, but there is a --nonet option that can be set.