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GNU sed vs Xidel

A side-by-side look at GNU sed and Xidel. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

GNU sed

GNU sed

Development

GNU sed is a stream text editor for filtering and transforming text, commonly used for basic text manipulation and scripting. It is the GNU implementation of the popular Unix utility sed.

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Xidel

Xidel

Development

Xidel is an open-source command line tool and library for parsing and extracting data from HTML/XML documents. It allows users to query documents using XPath and extract data to formats like JSON and CSV.

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