Escaping URLs and URIs into valid xml names

["Jimmy Cerra" <jc2astro@hotmail.com>]

Has there been any way researched to escape URLs (and URIs in general) into
valid XML names?  If not, I'd like to 'hear' any ideas on how to do it?

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Jimmy Cerra
EMAIL:
	jfcst24 AT stargate DOTE pitt DOTE edu
NOTE:
	Replace "AT" with "@" and "DOTE" WITH ".".
	"DOT" is misspelled to fake out spammers.
	Remove spaces and other white space too.

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