NAME
xml2asc - convert UTF-8 to &#nnn; entities
SYNOPSIS
xml2asc
DESCRIPTION
Reads an UTF-8 encoded text from standard input and writes to standard
output, converting all non-ASCII characters to &#nnn; entities, so that
the result is ASCII-encoded.
One example use is to convert ISO-8859-1 to ASCII with &#nnn; entities,
by first running asc2xml to convert ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 and then pipe
the result into xml2asc to convert to ASCII with &#nnn; entities for
all accented characters.
DIAGNOSTICS
xml2asc returns with a non-zero exit code if the input was not UTF-8.
SEE ALSO
asc2xml(1), UTF-8 (RFC 2279)
BUGS
Doesn’t distinguish mark-up from content, so if the input uses non-
ASCII characters in XML element names, they will be output with
numerical entities in them, which is not legal in XML.