1XML2ASC(1)                      HTML-XML-utils                      XML2ASC(1)
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NAME

6       xml2asc - convert UTF-8 to &#nnn; entities
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SYNOPSIS

9       xml2asc
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DESCRIPTION

12       Reads  an UTF-8 encoded text from standard input and writes to standard
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16       One example use is to convert ISO-8859-1 to ASCII with &#nnn; entities,
17       by first running asc2xml to convert ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 and  then  pipe
18       the  result  into  xml2asc to convert to ASCII with &#nnn; entities for
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DIAGNOSTICS

22       xml2asc returns with a non-zero exit code if the input was not UTF-8.
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SEE ALSO

25       asc2xml(1), UTF-8 (RFC 2279)
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BUGS

28       Doesn't distinguish mark-up from content, so if  the  input  uses  non-
29       ASCII characters in XML element names, they will be output with numeri‐
30       cal entities in them, which is not legal in XML.
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