"UNCDATA" "1" "15 Feb 2008" "4.x" "HTML-XML-utils"

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NAME

uncdata - replace CDATA sections by character entities

SYNOPSIS

uncdata [ xml-file ]

DESCRIPTION

uncdata replaces CDATA sections by character entities. The input is scanned for occurrences of "<![CDATA[" and corresponding "]]>". Those strings are removed and all occurrences of "&", "<" and ">" in between them will be replaced by "&amp;", "&lt;" and "&gt;" respectively.

The input must be 1 byte per character. If it is not, convert it to UTF-8 first.


OPTIONS

The following options are supported:
-?, --help
Show command usage.

OPERANDS

The following operand is supported:
xml-file
The file to work on.

SEE ALSO

UTF-8 (RFC 2279)