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xml2asc

NAME

xml2asc - convert UTF-8 to &#nnn; entities

SYNOPSIS

xml2asc

DESCRIPTION

Reads an UTF-8 encoded text from standard input and writes to standard output, converting all non-ASCII characters to &#nnn; entities, so that the result is ASCII-encoded.

One example use is to convert ISO-8859-1 to ASCII with &#nnn; entities, by first running asc2xml to convert ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 and then pipe the result into xml2asc to convert to ASCII with &#nnn; entities for all accented characters.

DIAGNOSTICS

xml2asc returns with a non-zero exit code if the input was not UTF-8.

SEE ALSO

asc2xml(1), UTF-8 (RFC 2279)

BUGS

Doesn't distinguish mark-up from content, so if the input uses non-ASCII characters in XML element names, they will be output with numerical entities in them, which is not legal in XML.