Bug#826763: ITP: xidel -- Command line tool to download and query HTML/XML/JSON with XQuery

[Benito van der Zander <benito@benibela.de>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name    : xidel
  Version         : 0.9.4
  Upstream Author : Benito van der Zander <benito@benibela.de>
* URL             : http://www.videlibri.de/xidel.html
* License         : GPLv3
  Programming Lang: Pascal
  Description     : Command line tool to download and query 
HTML/XML/JSON with XQuery

 Xidel is a command line tool to query data from HTML/XML web pages, 
JSON-APIs
 and local files.
 .
 It implements interpreters for XPath 2, XPath 3, XQuery 1, XQuery 3, 
JSONiq,
 CSS selectors and custom pattern matching.
 .
 XPath and CSS selectors are the most efficient way to select certain 
elements
 from XML/HTML documents.
 JSONiq (with custom extensions) is an easy way to select data from JSON.
 .
 XQuery is a Turing-complete superset of XPath and allows arbitrary data
 transformations and the creation of new documents.
 .
 Pattern matching is for XML/HTML documents what regular expressions 
are for
 plaintext, i.e. pattern matching behaves like a regular expression 
over the
 space of tags, instead over the space of characters.
 .
 Xidel implements a kind of internal pipes to pipe HTTP requests from 
one query
 to the next, so there is no need to distinguish selecting links and 
downloading
 the data referenced by them. Therefore arbitrary complex queries going 
over
 arbitrary many pages can be executed with a single call of Xidel.



The deb files at 
https://sourceforge.net/projects/videlibri/files/Xidel/Xidel%200.9.4/ 
should be packagable