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    copied!<p>i'm new to awk and need some assistance with a simple awk script to strip all the character metrics and concat the attributes to squash the XML by quite a bit.</p> <p>input</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt; &lt;document&gt; &lt;page&gt; &lt;block bbox="270 163.717 363.262 224.155"&gt; &lt;line bbox="270 163.717 274.453 182.669"&gt; &lt;span bbox="270 163.717 274.453 182.669" font="Helvetica-Bold" size="16.02"&gt; &lt;char bbox="270 200.519 284.425 224.155" c="f"/&gt; &lt;char bbox="284.43 200.519 291.082 224.155" c="o"/&gt; &lt;char bbox="291.087 200.519 297.74 224.155" c="o"/&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/line&gt; &lt;line bbox="270 200.519 363.262 224.155"&gt; &lt;span bbox="270 200.519 363.262 224.155" font="Helvetica-Bold" size="19.98"&gt; &lt;char bbox="270 200.519 284.425 224.155" c="b"/&gt; &lt;char bbox="284.43 200.519 291.082 224.155" c="a"/&gt; &lt;char bbox="291.087 200.519 297.74 224.155" c="r"/&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/line&gt; &lt;/block&gt; &lt;/page&gt; &lt;/document&gt; </code></pre> <p>desired output</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt; &lt;document&gt; &lt;page&gt; &lt;block bbox="270 163.717 363.262 224.155"&gt; &lt;line bbox="270 163.717 274.453 182.669"&gt; &lt;span bbox="270 163.717 274.453 182.669" font="Helvetica-Bold" size="16.02"&gt;foo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/line&gt; &lt;line bbox="270 200.519 363.262 224.155"&gt; &lt;span bbox="270 200.519 363.262 224.155" font="Helvetica-Bold" size="19.98"&gt;bar&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/line&gt; &lt;/block&gt; &lt;/page&gt; &lt;/document&gt; </code></pre> <p>thanks!</p>
 

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