<xml>
<people id="1" name="tom" age="15" sex="man"/>
<people id="2" name="Jet" age="17" sex="man"/>
</xml>
#! /usr/bin/sh
declare id
declare name
declare age
declare sex
tmp=`sed -n -e 's/<people //' -e 's/\/>//p' people.xml | sed -e 's/id="//' -e 's/name="//' -e 's/age="//' -e 's/sex="//' -e 's/"//g'`
lrc=($(echo $tmp))
for ((i=0,j=0;i<${#lrc[*]};i++,j++))
do
id[j]=${lrc[i]}
name[j]=${lrc[++i]}
age[j]=${lrc[++i]}
sex[j]=${lrc[++i]}
done
for((k=0; k<${#id[*]}; k++))
do
echo "id: ${id[k]}--name: ${name[k]}--age: ${age[k]}--sex:${sex[k]}"
done