Bash Parse XML

to parse really simple xml like:

<tag>
 <tag1>VALUE</tag1>
</tag>

i wrote a function and placed it in my .bashrc…

# simple XML/HTML parse function
# used to extrace values from a really simple result.xml file.
# 
# use like this:
# while rdom; do
#  if [[ $TAG = "TAG-Name-Im-Looking-For" ]]; then
#     echo $VAL;
#  fi;
# done < /home/user/results.xml
#
rdom() {
   export TAG; export VAL;
   local IFS=\> ;
   read -d \< TAG VAL ;
}

To parse more complex XML files use XPATH or similar.