Escaping URLs and URIs into valid xml names

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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