• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Subject: RE: If XML is too hard for a programmer, perhaps he'd be better off as a crossing guard
• From: <martin@h...>
• Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 01:20:37 +0000 (GMT)
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <r01050400-1024-79AA791E63CC11D7B1500003937A08C2@[192.168.124.11]>

Simon,

so at xmlhack, you're putting markup into text fields in an MS Access
database, and then export the data as XML, even though Access doesn't
know that certain fields are markup? and then you piece it together into
XHTML? sounds like fun. sounds like regexp!
sed 's/<[CDATA[\(.*<.*>.*\)]]>/\1/g' < access-export.xml \
| sed 's/\(&[[:alpha:]];\)/<[CDATA[\1]]>/g' > extra-clean.xml

or try a database that knows about XML.

regards,

/m

Martin Klang
http://www.o-xml.org - the object-oriented XML programming language

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