xmq mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• xmq

Projektgeschichte

The GitHub repository was created in 2019 and describes XMQ as a converter between XML/HTML and a more human-readable XMQ/HTMQ form, with JSON support, syntax highlighting, pretty printing, a pager, HTML and TeX rendering, and Invisible XML grammar support.

The project documentation and 2025 PDF by Fredrik Ohrstrom frame the design as a response to XML's editing pain: closing tags, significant whitespace, comments, attributes, entities, and transforms are represented in a syntax intended to remain visibly structured and always pretty-printable.

Adoptionsgeschichte

XMQ is a modern niche tool rather than a broad standard. Its public adoption signal is mostly package-manager availability, GitHub activity, and command-line discussion among users who want XML/HTML/JSON inspection to feel more like jq-era terminal work.

The tool's practical appeal grew as it added more than one format conversion. The homepage examples show pretty-printing XML, HTML, and JSON; using an internal pager; deleting nodes with XPath; converting between xmq/xml/htmq/html/json; applying XSLT/XSLQ-style transforms; rendering to HTML or TeX; and parsing arbitrary input with ixml grammars.

Wie es verwendet wird

Typical xmq usage starts as a pretty-printer: run xmq pom.xml, xmq data.json, cat rss.xml | xmq, or pipe a web page through deletion and pager commands to inspect the structure. The same executable can convert back out with commands such as to-xml, to-html, and to-json.

Its more package-nerd use is as a bridge between tree formats and Unix text workflows. XMQ's compact form and clines-style output make it easier to grep, diff, store, or log structured markup while still keeping enough structure to reconstruct the original document.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

XMQ is interesting because it treats XML not as obsolete, but as a powerful tree model with bad ergonomics. The package gives terminal users a reversible shorthand plus tools around XPath, transforms, paging, and rendering.

It also sits near a family of command-line format shims such as jq, yq, xq, xmlstarlet, and pup, but takes a different route: instead of only querying a source format, it introduces an alternate readable surface syntax for markup.

Zeitleiste

• 2019-09-02: The libxmq/xmq GitHub repository is created.
• 2020s: The tool expands around XML, HTML, JSON, syntax highlighting, paging, conversion, XSLT/XSLQ transforms, and ixml parsing.
• 2025-08-04: The XMQ/HTMQ PDF presents the rationale and compact specification for the syntax.
• 2026: The project is packaged in Homebrew and documented at libxmq.org as a standalone xmq tool plus embeddable C source.

Related projects

• jq is the obvious JSON-side comparison for command-line structured-data inspection.
• xmlstarlet and xq are adjacent XML command-line tools, though they query or transform existing formats rather than introducing XMQ as a reversible syntax.
• Invisible XML is supported by xmq for parsing non-XML input through grammars.
• libxml2 and libxslt are related XML infrastructure used throughout the broader XML tooling ecosystem.

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/libxmq/xmq
• https://github.com/libxmq/xmq
• https://libxmq.org/
• https://libxmq.org/xmq.pdf