[
Lists Home |
Date Index |
Thread Index
]
- From: David Megginson <david@megginson.com>
- To: "XML Developers' List" <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- 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/&/\&\;/g;
s/</\<\;/g;
s/>/\>\;/g;
}
print;
}
print "</junk>";
All the best,
David
--
David Megginson david@megginson.com
http://www.megginson.com/
xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1
To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message;
(un)subscribe xml-dev
To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message;
subscribe xml-dev-digest
List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)
|