Get a quick snapshot of the quantity and structure of elements in an XML file -- useful for getting acquainted with some new XML source, or for confirming expectations about XML data you created. (Yes, it is worthwhile to use XML::Parser in a one-liner...)
perl -MXML::Parser -le '$p=XML::Parser->new(
 Handlers=>{Start=>sub{$k.=".$_[1]";$h{$k}++},
             End=>sub{$k=~s/.$_[1]$//;}});
 $p->parsefile(shift);
 END{print "$h{$_}\t$_" for (sort keys %h)}'   some_file.xml

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(Line-breaks added for legibility; the first time I did this, it really was all on one line -- honest!)

In reply to Get a structured tally of XML tags by graff

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