How can i change the xml file values by bat commands. 'sed' is not recognized as internal or external command - batch-file

Question

Folks,
Trying to update the XML file values using 'sed'. bat command not recognized.
CODE:
**#echo off
SET PREFIX=ROOM107-
SET SUFFIX=\Admin
SET /P PCNAME1=Please enter your desired NUMBER:
SET PCNAME=%PREFIX%%PCNAME1%%SUFFIX%
sed -i "s#<UserId>Admin</UserId>#<UserId>%PCNAME%</UserId>#" changexml.xml
pause**
Any other way to update the below XML file using BAT command ?
XML:
<xml>
<Main_group>
<group_1>
<add key="A" value="AMERICA"/>
<add key="B" value="BALL"/>
</group_1>
<group_2>
<add key="A" value="AMERICA"/>
<add key="B" value="BALL"/>
</group_2>
</Main_group>
<SubGroup>
<add key="A" value="AMERICA"/>
<add key="B" value="BALL"/>
</SubGroup>
</xml>
trying to update the value of 'A' and 'B' of the node
like below
<SubGroup>
<add key="A" value="USA"/>
<add key="B" value="Basket Ball"/>
</SubGroup>

Answer 1

Your xml was not valid so I've edited it a little bit (saved as xml.txt):
<xml>
<Main_group>
<group_1>
<add key="A" value="AMERICA"/>
<add key="B" value="BALL"/>
</group_1>
<group_2>
<add key="A" value="AMERICA"/>
<add key="B" value="BALL"/>
</group_2>
</Main_group>
<SubGroup>
<add key="A" value="AMERICA"/>
<add key="B" value="BALL"/>
</SubGroup>
</xml>
Here's a bat file that edit his values (should be in the same directory).Without need of installing external programs and the xml is parsed as xml without using regex. You can change the hardcoded values:
#if (#X)==(#Y) #end /* JScript comment
#echo off
cscript //E:JScript //nologo "%~f0"
exit /b %errorlevel%
#if (#X)==(#Y) #end JScript comment */
//------------------------
// -- hard coded values --
var originalFile="xml.txt";
var newFile="xml1.xml";
var xpath1='//SubGroup/add[#key="A"]/#value';
var xpath2='//SubGroup/add[#key="B"]/#value';
var newValue1="USA";
var newValue2="Basket Ball";
//---------------------------
var objDoc;
var objNodes;
var loaded;
try {
objDoc = WScript.CreateObject("MSXML.DOMDocument");
loaded=objDoc.load(originalFile);
} catch (err){
WScript.Echo("Error while parsing the xml");
WScript.Echo(err.message);
WScript.Quit(1);
}
if(!loaded){
WScript.Echo("Error while parsing the xml");
WScript.Echo("");
WScript.Echo("Error Code:"+objDoc.parseError.errorCode);
WScript.Echo("");
WScript.Echo("Line:"+objDoc.parseError.line+" Posotion:"+objDoc.parseError.filepos);
WScript.Echo("");
WScript.Echo("Reason:"+objDoc.parseError.reason);
WScript.Echo("");
WScript.Echo("URL:"+objDoc.parseError.url);
WScript.Echo("");
WScript.Echo(objDoc.parseError.srcText);
WScript.Quit(5);
}
var node1=objDoc.selectSingleNode(xpath1);
var node2=objDoc.selectSingleNode(xpath2);
node1.text=newValue1;
node2.text=newValue2;
objDoc.save(newFile);

Answer 2

You probably want to use xmlstarlet to handle XML documents.
Here is the link to install it:
http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/download.php
After getting it working, here is the code to handle the required changes:
xmlstarlet ed [--inplace] -u '/xml/SubGroup/add[#key="A"]/#value' -v "USA" -u '/xml/SubGroup/add[#key="B"]/#value' -v "Basket Ball" changexml.xml
The argument --inplace will change the original file.

Answer 3

If you want to use sed on Windows, you have to get a Unix environment like MSYS, Cygwin or Windows Subsystem for Linux.
However, it's not a good idea to parse XML with RegEx.