8. Escape/Unescape special XML characters
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8. Escape/Unescape special XML characters

Here is synopsis for 'xml esc' command:

xml esc --help
XMLStarlet Toolkit: Escape special XML characters
Usage: xml esc [<options>] [<string>]
where <options> are
   --help      - print usage
   (TODO: more to be added in future)
if <string> is missing stdin is used instead.

XMLStarlet is a command line toolkit to query/edit/check/transform
XML documents (for more information see http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/)

EXAMPLE

# Escape special XML characters
cat xml/structure.xml | xml esc

Input

<a1>
  <a11>
    <a111>
      <a1111/>
    </a111>
    <a112>
      <a1121/>
    </a112>
  </a11>
  <a12/>
  <a13>
    <a131/>
  </a13>
</a1>

Output

&lt;a1&gt;
  &lt;a11&gt;
    &lt;a111&gt;
      &lt;a1111/&gt;
    &lt;/a111&gt;
    &lt;a112&gt;
      &lt;a1121/&gt;
    &lt;/a112&gt;
  &lt;/a11&gt;
  &lt;a12/&gt;
  &lt;a13&gt;
    &lt;a131/&gt;
  &lt;/a13&gt;
&lt;/a1&gt;
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