converting XML to text in Linux

Question

Is there anything offered in linux that might convert an XML file to a plain text file?

My hopes are that it is flexible enough to make the following type of line:

Guide

into something like:

title: Guide

along with all the other fields. It'd be nice if it could handle multiple lines inside a single tag line as well.

Comments

Pretty easy to do with XSLT...

---

google: perl XML to text
Hit #4:

Answer 1

XSLT is probably your best bet for a long-term solution (as opposed to a simplistic regex match via a scripting language) because it allows you great future flexibility.

Comments

Or perl with XML::Twig which gives you a full featured parser and complete control of what you do with the parsed value. If you lean more towards the java way of doing things than perl, you could use groovy for fairly painless scripting with fairly complete xml handling tools.