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Extract attributes from census.gov TIGER/Line .shp.xml shape metadata files
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shp-xml-attr.sh
#!/bin/sh
# REQUIRES: xmlstarlet <http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/>
xmlstarlet sel -t -v //attr $1
# Where $1 is a *.shp.xml file as downloaded from <http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles2011/main>
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