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 at 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. >