Beatriz Langiano writes:
> I was writing a bash script (in linux), and I'd like
> to  to read a XML document, like in XSLT.
> Does somebody know how I could do this?

I haven't tried it, but William Park maintains a souped-up version of
bash that includes XML support (nothing like XPath/XSLT though):

http://freshmeat.net/projects/bashdiff/index.html#xml
http://home.eol.ca/~parkw/index.html#xml

-- 
Kevin Rodgers