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How to change property value with augeas which position changes in XML?

I have the following problem:

my XML (simplified):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
  <properties>
    <property name="username">USERNAME</property>
    <property name="anything">blabla</property>
  </properties>
</configuration>

I need to replace the Username value with augeas. It works fine with:

augtool> set /files/test.xml/configuration/properties/property[1]/#text NEWUSER

But the problem is: The username entry is NOT always on position one. Is there a way in augeas to look for the position with "match" or some kind of regex?

augtool> match /files/test.xml/configuration/properties/*/#attribute/name  username

works fine an results in 

/files/test.xml/configuration/properties/property[1]/#attribute/name

But i don't know how to use this information when setting a value.

Solution

  • What you need to do is:

    set /files/test.xml/configuration/properties/property[#attribute/name='username']/#text NEWUSER

    This selects the property (/files/test.xml/configuration/properties/property) whose #attribute/name subnode matches username, and sets its #text subnode as NEWUSER.