Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm unable view data of a xml file..i just display something like the attached. Please see the attached.

I'm trying to create a script which would prase the xml file and display the content. since the content is encoded..i'm unable to see the actul data using my script.

Thank you!

Code:

strings yourfile.xml

but i guess the way you added the gif image in your xml file is not correct.

I used strings and its still shows the same.

what gives

Code:

file yourfile.xml

??

it says

is the display still nested with :

Code:

less yourfile.xml

and then

Code:

strings yourfile.xml | less

Do you connect using PuTTY ? if so, i guess there are also some parameter to change somewhere to make it immune to the received escape sequences.

you can also see if you have better result with ome other display commands such as

Code:

more
cat
pg

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You can also give some try after various changes in
PuTTY -> Terminal -> Feature -> Disable remote-controlled character set configuration
or other
PuTTY -> Terminal -> Feature -> Disable remote-controlled * parameters

You will have to convert the character references (the string &# followed by either a decimal or hexadecimal value followed by a colon, which specifies the ISO 10646 code point for a particular glyph) in each element of your XML document. This is what a Web Browser does; it displays the appropriate glyph for each character reference.

Can you supply us with a complete sample XML document and what locale you wish to use?

Just thought of something - you probably can use iconv to do the conversion.