RE: Problem Translating 'escaped' HTML tags to real HTML

FAQ,

> I need to translate an XML doc to HTML. The XML contains HTML 
> tags in the
> format <br> This needs to be translated such that it is 
> seen as a line
> brake tag by the browser.
[snip]
 
> Ideally I would like to simply translate all &lt; to < and 
> all &gt; to > ,
> so all the HTML tags in the XML get displayed properly.
You have the wrong hammer.

  sed -e 's/&lt;/</' -e 's/&gt;/>/'

Cheers,

Jarno

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