documentation for syntax to extract two or more fields from same "record" ?

[mfioretti]

Greetings,

I am learning Xidel 0.9.8 on Ubuntu. My issue is that I have looked into the documentation, but as far as I can tell it gives no clue (none I recognize, at least) to do this.

I have a JSON file with records that have, among others, id and title fields, eg:

#> jq '.' test.json  | cut -c1-100 | more
[
  {
    "id": 42,
    "title": "Software is eating the world",

I want to extract with Xidel those two values, producing output lines like this:

ARTICLE: 42 ==> Software is eating the world

or at least like this:

42 ==> Software is eating the world

and I can't find, or recognize, the right syntax to use for what seems a general, very common need to me. The closest I have come to what I want is this:

xidel test.json -e 'for $t in $json/title return string-join(("$t/../id", $t), " ==> ")'

which produces lines like these:

$t/../id ==> Software is eating the world

what is the right way to refer to the id value of the current record???

Thanks!

[Reino17]

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