• From: David Megginson <david@m...>
• To: "XML Developers' List" <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 15:12:11 -0400 (EDT)

Roger L. Costello writes:

 > Anyone have a tool that converts a document that is formatted in a
 > non-XML syntax into XML?

Perl -- it's hideously ugly, but most of the world uses it and it runs
pretty fast (especially when pattern matching).

Here's a ten-line Perl program that will convert most non-XML text
files to XML (as long as they don't contain control characters):

  print "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<junk>";
  while (<>) {
    if (/[&<>]/) {
      s/&/\&amp\;/g;
      s/</\&lt\;/g;
      s/>/\&gt\;/g;
    }
    print;
  }
  print "</junk>"; 


All the best,


David

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