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Old 08-24-2009
I would also recommend placing the text inside a CDATA section to guard against illegal XML characters.
# 9  
Old 08-25-2009
Thanks for ur help blitzer..

Its working fine.

but i need to add "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>" line before documentbody tag.

Can you help me in this also.

Thanks and Regards
Hemant
# 10  
Old 08-26-2009
Code:
echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>' > outfile.txt && echo "<documentbody>$(cat infile.txt)</documentbody>" >> outfile.txt
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