sibprogrammer/xq

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1142 stars · 34 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

xq is a command-line XML and HTML beautifier and content extractor written in Go. It formats and syntax-highlights markup, supports XPath and CSS selector queries for content extraction, and can convert XML to JSON.

Use cases

• pretty-print and syntax-highlight xml files in the terminal
• extract values from xml using xpath queries
• extract html elements with css selectors
• convert xml to json from the command line
• format html pulled from curl through stdin
• check for presence of an xml node in shell scripts

When to choose

• you need a jq-like tool for XML/HTML instead of JSON
• you want fast, dependency-free markup formatting in shell pipelines
• you need to extract node text or attributes via XPath or CSS selectors

When to avoid

• you need full XML schema validation or XSLT transformation
• you need to query JSON or YAML rather than XML/HTML
• you need a GUI or programmatic library API rather than a CLI

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

parser formatter cli developer-tools developer-tools files cli cross-platform windows xml html xpath css-selectors syntax-highlighting jq-like json-conversion command-line macos linux

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