XML in DOS

[txgeekgirl1]

I really don't know if I can get any help but here it is.... I have a .UXML file that I have to rewrite in a batch file to create permissions files on the fly. My problem is - how do I get around the special characters that also have DOS connotations?

ECHO <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> >C:\Docume~1\blahblahblah\userPref.UXML

 

[tsuji]

In a batch file or at console, like this.
[tt] ECHO [red]^[/red]<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?[red]^[/red]> >C:\Docume~1\blahblahblah\userPref.UXML
[/tt]

 

[txgeekgirl1]

Thanks tsuji -

Any idea why after 2 lines it stops writing? I have about 50 lines to write...

C:

ECHO ^<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>^ > c:\myfile.uxml
ECHO ^<UserPreferanceXML xmlns:xsi="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"[/URL] xmlns:xsd="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">^[/URL] >> c:\myfile.uxml
ECHO ^<ShowToolbarImage>true</ShowToolbarImage>^ >> c:\myfile.uxml
ECHO ^<ShowToolbarText>false</ShowToolbarText>^ >> c:\myfile.uxml

 

[tsuji]

[1] First >> has special meaning, just like > has. And then < has special meaning as well. If you want echo either > or < without that special meaning for the dos shell, you need to escape it appending ^ in front of it.

[1.1] The position of ^ is already mis-positioned in your second post.

[2] Watch out also line-break. It is not recognized by the shell and is taken as the limit for the echo internal command. There is no line-break in front of xmlns:xsd. If you want a line break, you put up another line and re-direction of the output to file.

[3] Watch carefully.
[tt]
ECHO ^<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?^> > c:\myfile.uxml
ECHO ^<UserPreferanceXML xmlns:xsi="[ignore]

http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance

[/ignore]"
xmlns:xsd="[ignore]

http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema

[/ignore]"^> >> c:\myfile.uxml
ECHO ^<ShowToolbarImage^>true^</ShowToolbarImage^> >> c:\myfile.uxml
ECHO ^<ShowToolbarText^>false^</ShowToolbarText^> >> c:\myfile.uxml
[/tt]

 

[txgeekgirl1]

Thank you so much - I understand much better now.

 

[txgeekgirl1]

Wanted to thank you once again. It worked perfectly once I understood the necessity of the ^ and it's placement inside the XML code.