nushell/docs/commands/from-xml.md
Jörn Zaefferer 8ab2b92405
docs/commands: add from.md, update subcommands (#1712)
This adds a top-level document for the new `from` command, with a list of links of all the subcommands.

All the from-* subcommands keep their filename, but the content is updated to use the new subcommand syntax.

Needs matching update for to*

Ref #1709
2020-05-05 09:01:31 +12:00

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# from xml
Parse text as `.xml` and create table. Use this when nushell cannot dertermine the input file extension.
Syntax: `from xml`
## Examples
Let's say we've got a file in `xml` format but the file extension is different so Nu can't auto-format it:
```shell
> open world.txt
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<world>
<continent>Africa</continent>
<continent>Antarctica</continent>
<continent>Asia</continent>
<continent>Australia</continent>
<continent>Europe</continent>
<continent>North America</continent>
<continent>South America</continent>
</world>
```
We can use `from xml` to read the input like a `xml` file:
```shell
> open world.txt | from xml
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
world
────────────────
[table 7 rows]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
```