[ale] grrr, sed sucks!

[Fletch]

>>>>> "Christopher" == Christopher Bergeron <christopher at bergeron.com> writes:

    Christopher> I'm trying to convert every occurrence of >< (between
    Christopher> xml tags) into >newline< in a staroffice content.xml
    Christopher> file.  For some reason, it's not working, and it's


Someone else's already pointed out the perl one liner (hey, I didn't
read mail yesterday :), but I thought I'd point out that blindly
substituting for things in XML may not work.  For a pathalogical
example, you might have `<![CDATA[><]]>', which is an non-entity
literal `><'.


Granted I don't know if StarOffice would use this particular
construct, but it's something to keep in mind when processing XML (or
HTML, or SGML).  In general it's safer (read `will be more certain of
producing correct results') to use a proper parser than to try and
kludge something with regexen.

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