Thanks for all the answers. And thanks to Les for understanding the exact problem. I had Googled before asking. And yes, I found tons of info, even started the W3W tutorial. I'm new to XML and it's conversions.
My question was: is there anything already in Centos that handles the conversion. Not a specific solution, but the name of a package that would include what I needed to do this for me. Google doesn't always respond with Centos-specific answers, which is which I posted to this, the Centos, list.
I'll try and be more specific from now on so I don't ruffle feathers. Not sure what this list is for I guess.
steve campbell
On 11/7/2013 6:00 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 4:53 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
<SNIP> Or, the point for the OP is, try googling for an answer before posting.... Do some of the heavy lifting yourself.
You can't really blame someone for thinking there _must_ be an easier way to deal with things that are clearly text than the stuff you have to do with XML, can you? Searching google isn't going to make it less painful unless you find a complete program that already does the exact thing you are trying to do. Otherwise you are going to have to learn way more than you ever wanted to know about elements, attributes, nodes, paths and the like.