Shell Programming and Scripting

while IFS=">" read a id val 
do 
    if [[ "$id" =~ "</" ]] then 
        VAL=${id%<*}; ID=${id#*</}
        sed "s/<${ID}>/${VAL}/" temp.txt >> temp
        mv temp temp.txt
    fi
done < file.xml

while IFS=">" read a id val 
do 
    if [[ "$id" =~ "</" ]] 
    then 
        VAL=${id%<*}; ID=${id#*</}
        sed "s/<${ID}>/${VAL}/" temp.txt >> temp
        mv temp temp.txt
    fi
done < file.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Daten>
<export_date>2008-07-15 16:29:01</export_date>
<language>english</language>
<Name>I/you/he/she/</Name> 
<Firstname>Jan Janus</Firstname>

while IFS=">" read a id val 
do 
    if [[ "$id" =~ "</" ]] 
    then 
        VAL=${id%<*}; ID=${id#*</}
        sed "s|<${ID}>|${VAL}|" temp.txt >> temp
        mv temp temp.txt
    fi
done < file.xml

All dates were exported at 2008-07-15 16:29:01
The text was translated in english
And his name is I/you/he/she/
And his other name ist Jan

#!/bin/bash

while IFS=">" read a id val 
do 
    if [[ "$id" =~ "</" ]] 
    then 
        VAL=${id%<*}; ID=${id#*</}
        VAL=${VAL//\//\\\/};ID=${ID//\//\\\/};
        sed "s/<${ID}>/${VAL}/" ~/temp.txt >> ~/temp
        mv ~/temp ~/temp.txt
    fi
done < ~/file.xml