Re: HTML guru to the rescue?

[Sandy Harris <sandy -at- storm -dot- ca>]

Chris Gooch wrote:

> Thanks for all the help guys. It looks like the concensus
> is there's no way to do this without swapping &lt for <
> and so on ---- as I'm trying to do this in a script, this is
> a pain --- more sed required, jeez. sed makes my head hurt :-(

If you can do the conversion before the data reaches your HTML
file, just put these two lines:

s/>/\&gt;/g
s/</\&lt;/g

plus any others you may want, like this one to recode quotes:

s/"/\&quot;/g

in a file named, say, 'sedscript' and do:

sed -f sedscript < infile > outfile

to do a single file conversion. For multiple files, put that
inside a shell loop, something like:

for i in chapter.*
do
	sed -f sedscript < $i > $i.new
done

If the data's already in the HTML file, then this is a tricky
task for sed. You need to be selective so you don't change <
and > in HTML tags. This is possible, but tricky.

I know sed well, consider it an old friend, but for this I'd
use an interactive editor. e.g. I've done it with Wordpad's
replace command. Just go through the whole file clicking
'replace' for the text < or > characters and 'next' to bypass
the ones that are in HTML tags. Takes a while, but does the 
job.

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