From examples, this is only like jq in the sense that the q stands for the same thing. Even the way it does that is different.

An xmlq that was really like jq would be fun, about 20 years ago.

There is `xq` today, which parses XML like `jq`. I think that it is relatively unknown because it is part of the `yq` package for parsing YMAL. So just install `yq` via PIP and you'll get `xq` as well.

There is also `xmlstarlet` for parsing XML in a similar fashion.

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xmlstarlet is really nothing like jq, as a language. But yes, I use it because it is the best commandline xml processor I'd found. That's the only similarity to jq.

Is this the yq? https://kislyuk.github.io/yq/ It does contain an 'xq', as a literal wrapper for jq, piping output into it after transcoding XML to JSON using xmltodict https://github.com/martinblech/xmltodict (which explodes xml into separate JSON data structures).

This is a bash one-liner! But TBF it really is a 'jq for xml'. I think it would be horrible for some things, but you could also do a lot of useful things painlessly.