debian man page for xml2asc

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

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 numeri-
       cal entities in them, which is not legal in XML.

6.x								    10 Jul 2011 							XML2ASC(1)