Tomcat web.xml Dasel Query Patterns

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Load this skill when querying a web.xml deployment descriptor — enumerating servlets, inspecting filter chains, listing listeners, extracting context parameters, or finding servlets by init-param value.

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Domain skill for querying Tomcat web.xml files using dasel v3. Always use -i xml explicitly. XML attributes use - prefix in dasel friendly mode.

Servlet Discovery

# All servlet names
cat web.xml | dasel -i xml 'web-app.servlet.map(servlet-name)'

# Count servlet definitions
cat web.xml | dasel -i xml 'len(web-app.servlet)'