Package: xidel
Source: xidel
Section: web
Priority: extra
Maintainer: Benito van der Zander <benito@benibela.de>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~), fpc 
Standards-Version: 3.9.1
Homepage: http://www.videlibri.de/xidel.html
Architecture: any
Version: 0.9.8
Depends: libc6
Recommends: libssl-dev, libcrypto++8 | libcrypto++9
Description: Command line tool to process HTML/XML/JSON locally or from online sources
 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.
