marc dubois

hi,
is it possible to parse an XML file in C so that i can fulfill these
requirements :
1) replace all "<" and ">" signs inside the body of tag by a space, e.g. :
Example 1:
<foo> blabla < bla </foo>

becomes

<foo> blabla bla </foo>

Example 2:

<foo>> blablabla </foo>

becomes


<foo> blablabla </foo>


2) Remove all extra spaces at the end of every line of the XML file
3) Replace all special characters ( Unicode or Hexadecimal characters) by a
space


I mean the XML file is not well formed if there are "<" and ">" signs a
little bit everywhere,
it is not a valid file in that case, so i do not think the use of a parser
would be appropriate in that case. (How would the parser react when it
encounters a < that does not correspond to the beginning of a tag ???)

Do you have an idea on how i can write a program to deal with these
requirements ?
Technical environment is : Unix, KSH, and C (gcc)

I am thinking of using the "sed" command instead, i can get rid of the extra
spaces and replace the special characters but i still do not know how to
deal with the extra ">" and "<" signs.

Thanks for your help.
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willerz

It's not generally possible, which is why generalised XML parsers make
no attempt to handle it.
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xian

In XML < and > chars are not allowed to appear ecxept as the start and end
of a tag (you have to use the &gt; and &lt; entities if you want it
somewhere else). So just replacing all < and > chars you come across is
fine for all valid XML files, but can you garentee that all the XML you
will come across is valid?

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