Need Help with XML transformation 1

[vj18]

hi,

Help me pls. My task is to replace &quot;&&quot; and &quot;<&quot; so the input XML file becomes well formed. I have 32,000 XML files to work on.
Files look like this :

<book>
.
.
.
.<Abstract>
<AbstractText> this book explains formula a<0.01 and some basic science.</AbstractText>
</Abstract>
.
.
.<source>Texas A & M University</source>
.
.
</book>

I want to replace special characters like < and & with < and & in all files. Can anyone pplease suggest me how this can be achieved? I tried to use XSLT but it only accepts well formed documents. please help me out !!
Thanks.

VJ

 

[harebrain]

If you're on a Unix box, use sed. Use these REs for your script:

/\&/s//\&_amp;/g
/\</s//\<_lt;/g

Omit the underscores before amp and lt in the above code: if I don't break up the entity strings, the forum software interprets them, and that wrecks the code.

 

[harebrain]

Of course, you'd have had to do that before you inserted the XML tags. The search pattern would be more convoluted if you can't do the sed step first.